Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 6.1.16 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
HID: intel-ish-hid: Fix kernel panic during warm reset
During warm reset device->fw_client is set to NULL. If a bus driver is
registered after this NULL setting and before new firmware clients are
enumerated by ISHTP, kernel panic will result in the function
ishtp_cl_bus_match(). This is because of reference to
device->fw_client->props.protocol_name.
ISH firmware after getting successfully loaded, sends a warm reset
notification to remove all clients from the bus and sets
device->fw_client to NULL. Until kernel v5.15, all enabled ISHTP kernel
module drivers were loaded right after any of the first ISHTP device was
registered, regardless of whether it was a matched or an unmatched
device. This resulted in all drivers getting registered much before the
warm reset notification from ISH.
Starting kernel v5.16, this issue got exposed after the change was
introduced to load only bus drivers for the respective matching devices.
In this scenario, cros_ec_ishtp device and cros_ec_ishtp driver are
registered after the warm reset device fw_client NULL setting.
cros_ec_ishtp driver_register() triggers the callback to
ishtp_cl_bus_match() to match ISHTP driver to the device and causes kernel
panic in guid_equal() when dereferencing fw_client NULL pointer to get
protocol_name.
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/mlx5e: xsk: Fix crash on regular rq reactivation
When the regular rq is reactivated after the XSK socket is closed
it could be reading stale cqes which eventually corrupts the rq.
This leads to no more traffic being received on the regular rq and a
crash on the next close or deactivation of the rq.
Kal Cuttler Conely reported this issue as a crash on the release
path when the xdpsock sample program is stopped (killed) and restarted
in sequence while traffic is running.
This patch flushes all cqes when during the rq flush. The cqe flushing
is done in the reset state of the rq. mlx5e_rq_to_ready code is moved
into the flush function to allow for this.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ACPICA: Add AML_NO_OPERAND_RESOLVE flag to Timer
ACPICA commit 90310989a0790032f5a0140741ff09b545af4bc5
According to the ACPI specification 19.6.134, no argument is required to be passed for ASL Timer instruction. For taking care of no argument, AML_NO_OPERAND_RESOLVE flag is added to ASL Timer instruction opcode.
When ASL timer instruction interpreted by ACPI interpreter, getting error. After adding AML_NO_OPERAND_RESOLVE flag to ASL Timer instruction opcode, issue is not observed.
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UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in acpica/dswexec.c:401:12 index -1 is out of range for type 'union acpi_operand_object *[9]'
CPU: 37 PID: 1678 Comm: cat Not tainted
6.0.0-dev-th500-6.0.y-1+bcf8c46459e407-generic-64k
HW name: NVIDIA BIOS v1.1.1-d7acbfc-dirty 12/19/2022 Call trace:
dump_backtrace+0xe0/0x130
show_stack+0x20/0x60
dump_stack_lvl+0x68/0x84
dump_stack+0x18/0x34
ubsan_epilogue+0x10/0x50
__ubsan_handle_out_of_bounds+0x80/0x90
acpi_ds_exec_end_op+0x1bc/0x6d8
acpi_ps_parse_loop+0x57c/0x618
acpi_ps_parse_aml+0x1e0/0x4b4
acpi_ps_execute_method+0x24c/0x2b8
acpi_ns_evaluate+0x3a8/0x4bc
acpi_evaluate_object+0x15c/0x37c
acpi_evaluate_integer+0x54/0x15c
show_power+0x8c/0x12c [acpi_power_meter]
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ubifs: Fix memory leak in do_rename
If renaming a file in an encrypted directory, function
fscrypt_setup_filename allocates memory for a file name. This name is
never used, and before returning to the caller the memory for it is not
freed.
When running kmemleak on it we see that it is registered as a leak. The
report below is triggered by a simple program 'rename' that renames a
file in an encrypted directory:
unreferenced object 0xffff888101502840 (size 32):
comm "rename", pid 9404, jiffies 4302582475 (age 435.735s)
backtrace:
__kmem_cache_alloc_node
__kmalloc
fscrypt_setup_filename
do_rename
ubifs_rename
vfs_rename
do_renameat2
To fix this we can remove the call to fscrypt_setup_filename as it's not
needed.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
modpost: fix off by one in is_executable_section()
The > comparison should be >= to prevent an out of bounds array
access.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/smc: Reset connection when trying to use SMCRv2 fails.
We found a crash when using SMCRv2 with 2 Mellanox ConnectX-4. It
can be reproduced by:
- smc_run nginx
- smc_run wrk -t 32 -c 500 -d 30 http://<ip>:<port>
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000014
#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
PGD 8000000108713067 P4D 8000000108713067 PUD 151127067 PMD 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
CPU: 4 PID: 2441 Comm: kworker/4:249 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G W E 6.4.0-rc1+ #42
Workqueue: smc_hs_wq smc_listen_work [smc]
RIP: 0010:smc_clc_send_confirm_accept+0x284/0x580 [smc]
RSP: 0018:ffffb8294b2d7c78 EFLAGS: 00010a06
RAX: ffff8f1873238880 RBX: ffffb8294b2d7dc8 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 00000000000000b4 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 0000000000b40c00
RBP: ffffb8294b2d7db8 R08: ffff8f1815c5860c R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000400 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff8f1846f56180
R13: ffff8f1815c5860c R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 0000000000000001
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8f1aefd00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000014 CR3: 00000001027a0001 CR4: 00000000003706e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
<TASK>
? mlx5_ib_map_mr_sg+0xa1/0xd0 [mlx5_ib]
? smcr_buf_map_link+0x24b/0x290 [smc]
? __smc_buf_create+0x4ee/0x9b0 [smc]
smc_clc_send_accept+0x4c/0xb0 [smc]
smc_listen_work+0x346/0x650 [smc]
? __schedule+0x279/0x820
process_one_work+0x1e5/0x3f0
worker_thread+0x4d/0x2f0
? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10
kthread+0xe5/0x120
? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
ret_from_fork+0x2c/0x50
</TASK>
During the CLC handshake, server sequentially tries available SMCRv2
and SMCRv1 devices in smc_listen_work().
If an SMCRv2 device is found. SMCv2 based link group and link will be
assigned to the connection. Then assumed that some buffer assignment
errors happen later in the CLC handshake, such as RMB registration
failure, server will give up SMCRv2 and try SMCRv1 device instead. But
the resources assigned to the connection won't be reset.
When server tries SMCRv1 device, the connection creation process will
be executed again. Since conn->lnk has been assigned when trying SMCRv2,
it will not be set to the correct SMCRv1 link in
smcr_lgr_conn_assign_link(). So in such situation, conn->lgr points to
correct SMCRv1 link group but conn->lnk points to the SMCRv2 link
mistakenly.
Then in smc_clc_send_confirm_accept(), conn->rmb_desc->mr[link->link_idx]
will be accessed. Since the link->link_idx is not correct, the related
MR may not have been initialized, so crash happens.
| Try SMCRv2 device first
| |-> conn->lgr: assign existed SMCRv2 link group;
| |-> conn->link: assign existed SMCRv2 link (link_idx may be 1 in SMC_LGR_SYMMETRIC);
| |-> sndbuf & RMB creation fails, quit;
|
| Try SMCRv1 device then
| |-> conn->lgr: create SMCRv1 link group and assign;
| |-> conn->link: keep SMCRv2 link mistakenly;
| |-> sndbuf & RMB creation succeed, only RMB->mr[link_idx = 0]
| initialized.
|
| Then smc_clc_send_confirm_accept() accesses
| conn->rmb_desc->mr[conn->link->link_idx, which is 1], then crash.
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This patch tries to fix this by cleaning conn->lnk before assigning
link. In addition, it is better to reset the connection and clean the
resources assigned if trying SMCRv2 failed in buffer creation or
registration.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
irqchip/gicv3: Workaround for NVIDIA erratum T241-FABRIC-4
The T241 platform suffers from the T241-FABRIC-4 erratum which causes
unexpected behavior in the GIC when multiple transactions are received
simultaneously from different sources. This hardware issue impacts
NVIDIA server platforms that use more than two T241 chips
interconnected. Each chip has support for 320 {E}SPIs.
This issue occurs when multiple packets from different GICs are
incorrectly interleaved at the target chip. The erratum text below
specifies exactly what can cause multiple transfer packets susceptible
to interleaving and GIC state corruption. GIC state corruption can
lead to a range of problems, including kernel panics, and unexpected
behavior.
>From the erratum text:
"In some cases, inter-socket AXI4 Stream packets with multiple
transfers, may be interleaved by the fabric when presented to ARM
Generic Interrupt Controller. GIC expects all transfers of a packet
to be delivered without any interleaving.
The following GICv3 commands may result in multiple transfer packets
over inter-socket AXI4 Stream interface:
- Register reads from GICD_I* and GICD_N*
- Register writes to 64-bit GICD registers other than GICD_IROUTERn*
- ITS command MOVALL
Multiple commands in GICv4+ utilize multiple transfer packets,
including VMOVP, VMOVI, VMAPP, and 64-bit register accesses."
This issue impacts system configurations with more than 2 sockets,
that require multi-transfer packets to be sent over inter-socket
AXI4 Stream interface between GIC instances on different sockets.
GICv4 cannot be supported. GICv3 SW model can only be supported
with the workaround. Single and Dual socket configurations are not
impacted by this issue and support GICv3 and GICv4."
Writing to the chip alias region of the GICD_In{E} registers except
GICD_ICENABLERn has an equivalent effect as writing to the global
distributor. The SPI interrupt deactivate path is not impacted by
the erratum.
To fix this problem, implement a workaround that ensures read accesses
to the GICD_In{E} registers are directed to the chip that owns the
SPI, and disable GICv4.x features. To simplify code changes, the
gic_configure_irq() function uses the same alias region for both read
and write operations to GICD_ICFGR.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: mwifiex: avoid possible NULL skb pointer dereference
In 'mwifiex_handle_uap_rx_forward()', always check the value
returned by 'skb_copy()' to avoid potential NULL pointer
dereference in 'mwifiex_uap_queue_bridged_pkt()', and drop
original skb in case of copying failure.
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: mdp3: Fix resource leaks in of_find_device_by_node
Use put_device to release the object get through of_find_device_by_node,
avoiding resource leaks.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: Fix potential use-after-free when clear keys
Similar to commit c5d2b6fa26b5 ("Bluetooth: Fix use-after-free in
hci_remove_ltk/hci_remove_irk"). We can not access k after kfree_rcu()
call.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-18