Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ovpn: tcp - fix packet extraction from stream
When processing TCP stream data in ovpn_tcp_recv, we receive large
cloned skbs from __strp_rcv that may contain multiple coalesced packets.
The current implementation has two bugs:
1. Header offset overflow: Using pskb_pull with large offsets on
coalesced skbs causes skb->data - skb->head to exceed the u16 storage
of skb->network_header. This causes skb_reset_network_header to fail
on the inner decapsulated packet, resulting in packet drops.
2. Unaligned protocol headers: Extracting packets from arbitrary
positions within the coalesced TCP stream provides no alignment
guarantees for the packet data causing performance penalties on
architectures without efficient unaligned access. Additionally,
openvpn's 2-byte length prefix on TCP packets causes the subsequent
4-byte opcode and packet ID fields to be inherently misaligned.
Fix both issues by allocating a new skb for each openvpn packet and
using skb_copy_bits to extract only the packet content into the new
buffer, skipping the 2-byte length prefix. Also, check the length before
invoking the function that performs the allocation to avoid creating an
invalid skb.
If the packet has to be forwarded to userspace the 2-byte prefix can be
pushed to the head safely, without misalignment.
As a side effect, this approach also avoids the expensive linearization
that pskb_pull triggers on cloned skbs with page fragments. In testing,
this resulted in TCP throughput improvements of up to 74%.
CVSS Score
7.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-05-06
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: libertas: fix WARNING in usb_tx_block
The function usb_tx_block() submits cardp->tx_urb without ensuring that
any previous transmission on this URB has completed. If a second call
occurs while the URB is still active (e.g. during rapid firmware loading),
usb_submit_urb() detects the active state and triggers a warning:
'URB submitted while active'.
Fix this by enforcing serialization: call usb_kill_urb() before
submitting the new request. This ensures the URB is idle and safe to reuse.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-05-06
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: qcom: camss: vfe: Fix out-of-bounds access in vfe_isr_reg_update()
vfe_isr() iterates using MSM_VFE_IMAGE_MASTERS_NUM(7) as the loop
bound and passes the index to vfe_isr_reg_update(). However,
vfe->line[] array is defined with VFE_LINE_NUM_MAX(4):
struct vfe_line line[VFE_LINE_NUM_MAX];
When index is 4, 5, 6, the access to vfe->line[line_id] exceeds
the array bounds and resulting in out-of-bounds memory access.
Fix this by using separate loops for output lines and write masters.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-05-06
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: cx88: Add missing unmap in snd_cx88_hw_params()
In error path, add cx88_alsa_dma_unmap() to release
resource acquired by cx88_alsa_dma_map().
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-05-06
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
alpha: fix user-space corruption during memory compaction
Alpha systems can suffer sporadic user-space crashes and heap
corruption when memory compaction is enabled.
Symptoms include SIGSEGV, glibc allocator failures (e.g. "unaligned
tcache chunk"), and compiler internal errors. The failures disappear
when compaction is disabled or when using global TLB invalidation.
The root cause is insufficient TLB shootdown during page migration.
Alpha relies on ASN-based MM context rollover for instruction cache
coherency, but this alone is not sufficient to prevent stale data or
instruction translations from surviving migration.
Fix this by introducing a migration-specific helper that combines:
- MM context invalidation (ASN rollover),
- immediate per-CPU TLB invalidation (TBI),
- synchronous cross-CPU shootdown when required.
The helper is used only by migration/compaction paths to avoid changing
global TLB semantics.
Additionally, update flush_tlb_other(), pte_clear(), to use
READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() for correct SMP memory ordering.
This fixes observed crashes on both UP and SMP Alpha systems.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-05-06
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
phy: fsl-imx8mq-usb: set platform driver data
Add missing platform_set_drvdata() as the data will be used in remove().
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-05-06
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bnxt_en: Fix RSS context delete logic
We need to free the corresponding RSS context VNIC
in FW everytime an RSS context is deleted in driver.
Commit 667ac333dbb7 added a check to delete the VNIC
in FW only when netif_running() is true to help delete
RSS contexts with interface down.
Having that condition will make the driver leak VNICs
in FW whenever close() happens with active RSS contexts.
On the subsequent open(), as part of RSS context restoration,
we will end up trying to create extra VNICs for which we
did not make any reservation. FW can fail this request,
thereby making us lose active RSS contexts.
Suppose an RSS context is deleted already and we try to
process a delete request again, then the HWRM functions
will check for validity of the request and they simply
return if the resource is already freed. So, even for
delete-when-down cases, netif_running() check is not
necessary.
Remove the netif_running() condition check when deleting
an RSS context.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-05-06
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: i2c/tw9906: Fix potential memory leak in tw9906_probe()
In one of the error paths in tw9906_probe(), the memory allocated in
v4l2_ctrl_handler_init() and v4l2_ctrl_new_std() is not freed. Fix that
by calling v4l2_ctrl_handler_free() on the handler in that error path.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-05-06
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: chips-media: wave5: Fix SError of kernel panic when closed
SError of kernel panic rarely happened while testing fluster.
The root cause was to enter suspend mode because timeout of autosuspend
delay happened.
[ 48.834439] SError Interrupt on CPU0, code 0x00000000bf000000 -- SError
[ 48.834455] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1067 Comm: v4l2h265dec0:sr Not tainted 6.12.9-gc9e21a1ebd75-dirty #7
[ 48.834461] Hardware name: ti Texas Instruments J721S2 EVM/Texas Instruments J721S2 EVM, BIOS 2025.01-00345-gbaf3aaa8ecfa 01/01/2025
[ 48.834464] pstate: 20000005 (nzCv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
[ 48.834468] pc : wave5_dec_clr_disp_flag+0x40/0x80 [wave5]
[ 48.834488] lr : wave5_dec_clr_disp_flag+0x40/0x80 [wave5]
[ 48.834495] sp : ffff8000856e3a30
[ 48.834497] x29: ffff8000856e3a30 x28: ffff0008093f6010 x27: ffff000809158130
[ 48.834504] x26: 0000000000000000 x25: ffff00080b625000 x24: ffff000804a9ba80
[ 48.834509] x23: ffff000802343028 x22: ffff000809158150 x21: ffff000802218000
[ 48.834513] x20: ffff0008093f6000 x19: ffff0008093f6000 x18: 0000000000000000
[ 48.834518] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: 0000ffff74009618
[ 48.834523] x14: 000000010000000c x13: 0000000000000000 x12: 0000000000000000
[ 48.834527] x11: ffffffffffffffff x10: ffffffffffffffff x9 : ffff000802343028
[ 48.834532] x8 : ffff00080b6252a0 x7 : 0000000000000038 x6 : 0000000000000000
[ 48.834536] x5 : ffff00080b625060 x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 : 0000000000000000
[ 48.834541] x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : ffff800084bf0118 x0 : ffff800084bf0000
[ 48.834547] Kernel panic - not syncing: Asynchronous SError Interrupt
[ 48.834549] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1067 Comm: v4l2h265dec0:sr Not tainted 6.12.9-gc9e21a1ebd75-dirty #7
[ 48.834554] Hardware name: ti Texas Instruments J721S2 EVM/Texas Instruments J721S2 EVM, BIOS 2025.01-00345-gbaf3aaa8ecfa 01/01/2025
[ 48.834556] Call trace:
[ 48.834559] dump_backtrace+0x94/0xec
[ 48.834574] show_stack+0x18/0x24
[ 48.834579] dump_stack_lvl+0x38/0x90
[ 48.834585] dump_stack+0x18/0x24
[ 48.834588] panic+0x35c/0x3e0
[ 48.834592] nmi_panic+0x40/0x8c
[ 48.834595] arm64_serror_panic+0x64/0x70
[ 48.834598] do_serror+0x3c/0x78
[ 48.834601] el1h_64_error_handler+0x34/0x4c
[ 48.834605] el1h_64_error+0x64/0x68
[ 48.834608] wave5_dec_clr_disp_flag+0x40/0x80 [wave5]
[ 48.834615] wave5_vpu_dec_clr_disp_flag+0x54/0x80 [wave5]
[ 48.834622] wave5_vpu_dec_buf_queue+0x19c/0x1a0 [wave5]
[ 48.834628] __enqueue_in_driver+0x3c/0x74 [videobuf2_common]
[ 48.834639] vb2_core_qbuf+0x508/0x61c [videobuf2_common]
[ 48.834646] vb2_qbuf+0xa4/0x168 [videobuf2_v4l2]
[ 48.834656] v4l2_m2m_qbuf+0x80/0x238 [v4l2_mem2mem]
[ 48.834666] v4l2_m2m_ioctl_qbuf+0x18/0x24 [v4l2_mem2mem]
[ 48.834673] v4l_qbuf+0x48/0x5c [videodev]
[ 48.834704] __video_do_ioctl+0x180/0x3f0 [videodev]
[ 48.834725] video_usercopy+0x2ec/0x68c [videodev]
[ 48.834745] video_ioctl2+0x18/0x24 [videodev]
[ 48.834766] v4l2_ioctl+0x40/0x60 [videodev]
[ 48.834786] __arm64_sys_ioctl+0xa8/0xec
[ 48.834793] invoke_syscall+0x44/0x100
[ 48.834800] el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xc0/0xe0
[ 48.834804] do_el0_svc+0x1c/0x28
[ 48.834809] el0_svc+0x30/0xd0
[ 48.834813] el0t_64_sync_handler+0xc0/0xc4
[ 48.834816] el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x194
[ 48.834820] SMP: stopping secondary CPUs
[ 48.834831] Kernel Offset: disabled
[ 48.834833] CPU features: 0x08,00002002,80200000,4200421b
[ 48.834837] Memory Limit: none
[ 49.161404] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Asynchronous SError Interrupt ]---
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-05-06
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
vhost: move vdpa group bound check to vhost_vdpa
Remove duplication by consolidating these here. This reduces the
posibility of a parent driver missing them.
While we're at it, fix a bug in vdpa_sim where a valid ASID can be
assigned to a group equal to ngroups, causing an out of bound write.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-05-06