Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 6.1.117 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
comedi: aio_iiro_16: Fix bit shift out of bounds
When checking for a supported IRQ number, the following test is used:
if ((1 << it->options[1]) & 0xdcfc) {
However, `it->options[i]` is an unchecked `int` value from userspace, so
the shift amount could be negative or out of bounds. Fix the test by
requiring `it->options[1]` to be within bounds before proceeding with
the original test. Valid `it->options[1]` values that select the IRQ
will be in the range [1,15]. The value 0 explicitly disables the use of
interrupts.
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-08-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
comedi: pcl812: Fix bit shift out of bounds
When checking for a supported IRQ number, the following test is used:
if ((1 << it->options[1]) & board->irq_bits) {
However, `it->options[i]` is an unchecked `int` value from userspace, so
the shift amount could be negative or out of bounds. Fix the test by
requiring `it->options[1]` to be within bounds before proceeding with
the original test. Valid `it->options[1]` values that select the IRQ
will be in the range [1,15]. The value 0 explicitly disables the use of
interrupts.
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-08-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
iio: common: st_sensors: Fix use of uninitialize device structs
Throughout the various probe functions &indio_dev->dev is used before it
is initialized. This caused a kernel panic in st_sensors_power_enable()
when the call to devm_regulator_bulk_get_enable() fails and then calls
dev_err_probe() with the uninitialized device.
This seems to only cause a panic with dev_err_probe(), dev_err(),
dev_warn() and dev_info() don't seem to cause a panic, but are fixed
as well.
The issue is reported and traced here: [1]
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-08-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
rxrpc: Fix recv-recv race of completed call
If a call receives an event (such as incoming data), the call gets placed
on the socket's queue and a thread in recvmsg can be awakened to go and
process it. Once the thread has picked up the call off of the queue,
further events will cause it to be requeued, and once the socket lock is
dropped (recvmsg uses call->user_mutex to allow the socket to be used in
parallel), a second thread can come in and its recvmsg can pop the call off
the socket queue again.
In such a case, the first thread will be receiving stuff from the call and
the second thread will be blocked on call->user_mutex. The first thread
can, at this point, process both the event that it picked call for and the
event that the second thread picked the call for and may see the call
terminate - in which case the call will be "released", decoupling the call
from the user call ID assigned to it (RXRPC_USER_CALL_ID in the control
message).
The first thread will return okay, but then the second thread will wake up
holding the user_mutex and, if it sees that the call has been released by
the first thread, it will BUG thusly:
kernel BUG at net/rxrpc/recvmsg.c:474!
Fix this by just dequeuing the call and ignoring it if it is seen to be
already released. We can't tell userspace about it anyway as the user call
ID has become stale.
CVSS Score
4.7
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-08-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/amdkfd: Don't call mmput from MMU notifier callback
If the process is exiting, the mmput inside mmu notifier callback from
compactd or fork or numa balancing could release the last reference
of mm struct to call exit_mmap and free_pgtable, this triggers deadlock
with below backtrace.
The deadlock will leak kfd process as mmu notifier release is not called
and cause VRAM leaking.
The fix is to take mm reference mmget_non_zero when adding prange to the
deferred list to pair with mmput in deferred list work.
If prange split and add into pchild list, the pchild work_item.mm is not
used, so remove the mm parameter from svm_range_unmap_split and
svm_range_add_child.
The backtrace of hung task:
INFO: task python:348105 blocked for more than 64512 seconds.
Call Trace:
__schedule+0x1c3/0x550
schedule+0x46/0xb0
rwsem_down_write_slowpath+0x24b/0x4c0
unlink_anon_vmas+0xb1/0x1c0
free_pgtables+0xa9/0x130
exit_mmap+0xbc/0x1a0
mmput+0x5a/0x140
svm_range_cpu_invalidate_pagetables+0x2b/0x40 [amdgpu]
mn_itree_invalidate+0x72/0xc0
__mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start+0x48/0x60
try_to_unmap_one+0x10fa/0x1400
rmap_walk_anon+0x196/0x460
try_to_unmap+0xbb/0x210
migrate_page_unmap+0x54d/0x7e0
migrate_pages_batch+0x1c3/0xae0
migrate_pages_sync+0x98/0x240
migrate_pages+0x25c/0x520
compact_zone+0x29d/0x590
compact_zone_order+0xb6/0xf0
try_to_compact_pages+0xbe/0x220
__alloc_pages_direct_compact+0x96/0x1a0
__alloc_pages_slowpath+0x410/0x930
__alloc_pages_nodemask+0x3a9/0x3e0
do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page+0xd7/0x3e0
__handle_mm_fault+0x5e3/0x5f0
handle_mm_fault+0xf7/0x2e0
hmm_vma_fault.isra.0+0x4d/0xa0
walk_pmd_range.isra.0+0xa8/0x310
walk_pud_range+0x167/0x240
walk_pgd_range+0x55/0x100
__walk_page_range+0x87/0x90
walk_page_range+0xf6/0x160
hmm_range_fault+0x4f/0x90
amdgpu_hmm_range_get_pages+0x123/0x230 [amdgpu]
amdgpu_ttm_tt_get_user_pages+0xb1/0x150 [amdgpu]
init_user_pages+0xb1/0x2a0 [amdgpu]
amdgpu_amdkfd_gpuvm_alloc_memory_of_gpu+0x543/0x7d0 [amdgpu]
kfd_ioctl_alloc_memory_of_gpu+0x24c/0x4e0 [amdgpu]
kfd_ioctl+0x29d/0x500 [amdgpu]
(cherry picked from commit a29e067bd38946f752b0ef855f3dfff87e77bec7)
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-08-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
kasan: remove kasan_find_vm_area() to prevent possible deadlock
find_vm_area() couldn't be called in atomic_context. If find_vm_area() is
called to reports vm area information, kasan can trigger deadlock like:
CPU0 CPU1
vmalloc();
alloc_vmap_area();
spin_lock(&vn->busy.lock)
spin_lock_bh(&some_lock);
<interrupt occurs>
<in softirq>
spin_lock(&some_lock);
<access invalid address>
kasan_report();
print_report();
print_address_description();
kasan_find_vm_area();
find_vm_area();
spin_lock(&vn->busy.lock) // deadlock!
To prevent possible deadlock while kasan reports, remove kasan_find_vm_area().
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-08-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: prevent A-MSDU attacks in mesh networks
This patch is a mitigation to prevent the A-MSDU spoofing vulnerability
for mesh networks. The initial update to the IEEE 802.11 standard, in
response to the FragAttacks, missed this case (CVE-2025-27558). It can
be considered a variant of CVE-2020-24588 but for mesh networks.
This patch tries to detect if a standard MSDU was turned into an A-MSDU
by an adversary. This is done by parsing a received A-MSDU as a standard
MSDU, calculating the length of the Mesh Control header, and seeing if
the 6 bytes after this header equal the start of an rfc1042 header. If
equal, this is a strong indication of an ongoing attack attempt.
This defense was tested with mac80211_hwsim against a mesh network that
uses an empty Mesh Address Extension field, i.e., when four addresses
are used, and when using a 12-byte Mesh Address Extension field, i.e.,
when six addresses are used. Functionality of normal MSDUs and A-MSDUs
was also tested, and confirmed working, when using both an empty and
12-byte Mesh Address Extension field.
It was also tested with mac80211_hwsim that A-MSDU attacks in non-mesh
networks keep being detected and prevented.
Note that the vulnerability being patched, and the defense being
implemented, was also discussed in the following paper and in the
following IEEE 802.11 presentation:
https://papers.mathyvanhoef.com/wisec2025.pdf
https://mentor.ieee.org/802.11/dcn/25/11-25-0949-00-000m-a-msdu-mesh-spoof-protection.docx
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-08-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: zd1211rw: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference in zd_mac_tx_to_dev()
There is a potential NULL pointer dereference in zd_mac_tx_to_dev(). For
example, the following is possible:
T0 T1
zd_mac_tx_to_dev()
/* len == skb_queue_len(q) */
while (len > ZD_MAC_MAX_ACK_WAITERS) {
filter_ack()
spin_lock_irqsave(&q->lock, flags);
/* position == skb_queue_len(q) */
for (i=1; i<position; i++)
skb = __skb_dequeue(q)
if (mac->type == NL80211_IFTYPE_AP)
skb = __skb_dequeue(q);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&q->lock, flags);
skb_dequeue() -> NULL
Since there is a small gap between checking skb queue length and skb being
unconditionally dequeued in zd_mac_tx_to_dev(), skb_dequeue() can return NULL.
Then the pointer is passed to zd_mac_tx_status() where it is dereferenced.
In order to avoid potential NULL pointer dereference due to situations like
above, check if skb is not NULL before passing it to zd_mac_tx_status().
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-08-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
rxrpc: Fix oops due to non-existence of prealloc backlog struct
If an AF_RXRPC service socket is opened and bound, but calls are
preallocated, then rxrpc_alloc_incoming_call() will oops because the
rxrpc_backlog struct doesn't get allocated until the first preallocation is
made.
Fix this by returning NULL from rxrpc_alloc_incoming_call() if there is no
backlog struct. This will cause the incoming call to be aborted.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-08-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/sched: Increment job count before swapping tail spsc queue
A small race exists between spsc_queue_push and the run-job worker, in
which spsc_queue_push may return not-first while the run-job worker has
already idled due to the job count being zero. If this race occurs, job
scheduling stops, leading to hangs while waiting on the job’s DMA
fences.
Seal this race by incrementing the job count before appending to the
SPSC queue.
This race was observed on a drm-tip 6.16-rc1 build with the Xe driver in
an SVM test case.
CVSS Score
4.7
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-08-16