Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
misc: bcm_vk: Fix possible null-pointer dereferences in bcm_vk_read()
In the function bcm_vk_read(), the pointer entry is checked, indicating
that it can be NULL. If entry is NULL and rc is set to -EMSGSIZE, the
following code may cause null-pointer dereferences:
struct vk_msg_blk tmp_msg = entry->to_h_msg[0];
set_msg_id(&tmp_msg, entry->usr_msg_id);
tmp_msg.size = entry->to_h_blks - 1;
To prevent these possible null-pointer dereferences, copy to_h_msg,
usr_msg_id, and to_h_blks from iter into temporary variables, and return
these temporary variables to the application instead of accessing them
through a potentially NULL entry.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-05-06
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
jfs: nlink overflow in jfs_rename
If nlink is maximal for a directory (-1) and inside that directory you
perform a rename for some child directory (not moving from the parent),
then the nlink of the first directory is first incremented and later
decremented. Normally this is fine, but when nlink = -1 this causes a
wrap around to 0, and then drop_nlink issues a warning.
After applying the patch syzbot no longer issues any warnings. I also
ran some basic fs tests to look for any regressions.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-05-06
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/amdgpu/ras: Move ras data alloc before bad page check
In the rare event if eeprom has only invalid address entries,
allocation is skipped, this causes following NULL pointer issue
[ 547.103445] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000010
[ 547.118897] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[ 547.130292] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[ 547.141689] PGD 124757067 P4D 0
[ 547.148842] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
[ 547.158504] CPU: 49 PID: 8167 Comm: cat Tainted: G OE 6.8.0-38-generic #38-Ubuntu
[ 547.177998] Hardware name: Supermicro AS -8126GS-TNMR/H14DSG-OD, BIOS 1.7 09/12/2025
[ 547.195178] RIP: 0010:amdgpu_ras_sysfs_badpages_read+0x2f2/0x5d0 [amdgpu]
[ 547.210375] Code: e8 63 78 82 c0 45 31 d2 45 3b 75 08 48 8b 45 a0 73 44 44 89 f1 48 8b 7d 88 48 89 ca 48 c1 e2 05 48 29 ca 49 8b 4d 00 48 01 d1 <48> 83 79 10 00 74 17 49 63 f2 48 8b 49 08 41 83 c2 01 48 8d 34 76
[ 547.252045] RSP: 0018:ffa0000067287ac0 EFLAGS: 00010246
[ 547.263636] RAX: ff11000167c28130 RBX: ff11000127600000 RCX: 0000000000000000
[ 547.279467] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ff11000125b1c800
[ 547.295298] RBP: ffa0000067287b50 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
[ 547.311129] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000
[ 547.326959] R13: ff11000217b1de00 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000092
[ 547.342790] FS: 0000746e59d14740(0000) GS:ff11017dfda80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 547.360744] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 547.373489] CR2: 0000000000000010 CR3: 000000019585e001 CR4: 0000000000f71ef0
[ 547.389321] PKRU: 55555554
[ 547.395316] Call Trace:
[ 547.400737] <TASK>
[ 547.405386] ? show_regs+0x6d/0x80
[ 547.412929] ? __die+0x24/0x80
[ 547.419697] ? page_fault_oops+0x99/0x1b0
[ 547.428588] ? do_user_addr_fault+0x2ee/0x6b0
[ 547.438249] ? exc_page_fault+0x83/0x1b0
[ 547.446949] ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x27/0x30
[ 547.456225] ? amdgpu_ras_sysfs_badpages_read+0x2f2/0x5d0 [amdgpu]
[ 547.470040] ? mas_wr_modify+0xcd/0x140
[ 547.478548] sysfs_kf_bin_read+0x63/0xb0
[ 547.487248] kernfs_file_read_iter+0xa1/0x190
[ 547.496909] kernfs_fop_read_iter+0x25/0x40
[ 547.506182] vfs_read+0x255/0x390
This also result in space left assigned to negative values.
Moving data alloc call before bad page check resolves both the issue.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-05-06
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/amdgpu: fix NULL pointer issue buffer funcs
If SDMA block not enabled, buffer_funcs will not initialize,
fix the null pointer issue if buffer_funcs not initialized.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-05-06
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fs/buffer: add alert in try_to_free_buffers() for folios without buffers
try_to_free_buffers() can be called on folios with no buffers attached
when filemap_release_folio() is invoked on a folio belonging to a mapping
with AS_RELEASE_ALWAYS set but no release_folio operation defined.
In such cases, folio_needs_release() returns true because of the
AS_RELEASE_ALWAYS flag, but the folio has no private buffer data. This
causes try_to_free_buffers() to call drop_buffers() on a folio with no
buffers, leading to a null pointer dereference.
Adding a check in try_to_free_buffers() to return early if the folio has no
buffers attached, with WARN_ON_ONCE() to alert about the misconfiguration.
This provides defensive hardening.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-05-06
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
io_uring/zcrx: fix user_ref race between scrub and refill paths
The io_zcrx_put_niov_uref() function uses a non-atomic
check-then-decrement pattern (atomic_read followed by separate
atomic_dec) to manipulate user_refs. This is serialized against other
callers by rq_lock, but io_zcrx_scrub() modifies the same counter with
atomic_xchg() WITHOUT holding rq_lock.
On SMP systems, the following race exists:
CPU0 (refill, holds rq_lock) CPU1 (scrub, no rq_lock)
put_niov_uref:
atomic_read(uref) - 1
// window opens
atomic_xchg(uref, 0) - 1
return_niov_freelist(niov) [PUSH #1]
// window closes
atomic_dec(uref) - wraps to -1
returns true
return_niov(niov)
return_niov_freelist(niov) [PUSH #2: DOUBLE-FREE]
The same niov is pushed to the freelist twice, causing free_count to
exceed nr_iovs. Subsequent freelist pushes then perform an out-of-bounds
write (a u32 value) past the kvmalloc'd freelist array into the adjacent
slab object.
Fix this by replacing the non-atomic read-then-dec in
io_zcrx_put_niov_uref() with an atomic_try_cmpxchg loop that atomically
tests and decrements user_refs. This makes the operation safe against
concurrent atomic_xchg from scrub without requiring scrub to acquire
rq_lock.
[pavel: removed a warning and a comment]
CVSS Score
4.7
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-05-06
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
hfsplus: ensure sb->s_fs_info is always cleaned up
When hfsplus was converted to the new mount api a bug was introduced by
changing the allocation pattern of sb->s_fs_info. If setup_bdev_super()
fails after a new superblock has been allocated by sget_fc(), but before
hfsplus_fill_super() takes ownership of the filesystem-specific s_fs_info
data it was leaked.
Fix this by freeing sb->s_fs_info in hfsplus_kill_super().
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-05-06
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
most: core: fix resource leak in most_register_interface error paths
The function most_register_interface() did not correctly release resources
if it failed early (before registering the device). In these cases, it
returned an error code immediately, leaking the memory allocated for the
interface.
Fix this by initializing the device early via device_initialize() and
calling put_device() on all error paths.
The most_register_interface() is expected to call put_device() on
error which frees the resources allocated in the caller. The
put_device() either calls release_mdev() or dim2_release(),
depending on the caller.
Switch to using device_add() instead of device_register() to handle
the split initialization.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-05-06
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: rtw88: Use devm_kmemdup() in rtw_set_supported_band()
Simplify the code by using device managed memory allocations.
This also fixes a memory leak in rtw_register_hw(). The supported bands
were not freed in the error path.
Copied from commit 145df52a8671 ("wifi: rtw89: Convert
rtw89_core_set_supported_band to use devm_*").
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-05-06
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
rpmsg: core: fix race in driver_override_show() and use core helper
The driver_override_show function reads the driver_override string
without holding the device_lock. However, the store function modifies
and frees the string while holding the device_lock. This creates a race
condition where the string can be freed by the store function while
being read by the show function, leading to a use-after-free.
To fix this, replace the rpmsg_string_attr macro with explicit show and
store functions. The new driver_override_store uses the standard
driver_set_override helper. Since the introduction of
driver_set_override, the comments in include/linux/rpmsg.h have stated
that this helper must be used to set or clear driver_override, but the
implementation was not updated until now.
Because driver_set_override modifies and frees the string while holding
the device_lock, the new driver_override_show now correctly holds the
device_lock during the read operation to prevent the race.
Additionally, since rpmsg_string_attr has only ever been used for
driver_override, removing the macro simplifies the code.
CVSS Score
4.7
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-05-06