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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: marvell: prestera: fix handling IPv4 routes with nhid
Fix handling IPv4 routes referencing a nexthop via its id by replacing
calls to fib_info_nh() with fib_info_nhc().
Trying to add an IPv4 route referencing a nextop via nhid:
$ ip link set up swp5
$ ip a a 10.0.0.1/24 dev swp5
$ ip nexthop add dev swp5 id 20 via 10.0.0.2
$ ip route add 10.0.1.0/24 nhid 20
triggers warnings when trying to handle the route:
[ 528.805763] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 528.810437] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 53 at include/net/nexthop.h:468 __prestera_fi_is_direct+0x2c/0x68 [prestera]
[ 528.820434] Modules linked in: prestera_pci act_gact act_police sch_ingress cls_u32 cls_flower prestera arm64_delta_tn48m_dn_led(O) arm64_delta_tn48m_dn_cpld(O) [last unloaded: prestera_pci]
[ 528.837485] CPU: 3 PID: 53 Comm: kworker/u8:3 Tainted: G O 6.4.5 #1
[ 528.845178] Hardware name: delta,tn48m-dn (DT)
[ 528.849641] Workqueue: prestera_ordered __prestera_router_fib_event_work [prestera]
[ 528.857352] pstate: 60000005 (nZCv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
[ 528.864347] pc : __prestera_fi_is_direct+0x2c/0x68 [prestera]
[ 528.870135] lr : prestera_k_arb_fib_evt+0xb20/0xd50 [prestera]
[ 528.876007] sp : ffff80000b20bc90
[ 528.879336] x29: ffff80000b20bc90 x28: 0000000000000000 x27: ffff0001374d3a48
[ 528.886510] x26: ffff000105604000 x25: ffff000134af8a28 x24: ffff0001374d3800
[ 528.893683] x23: ffff000101c89148 x22: ffff000101c89000 x21: ffff000101c89200
[ 528.900855] x20: ffff00013641fda0 x19: ffff800009d01088 x18: 0000000000000059
[ 528.908027] x17: 0000000000000277 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: 0000000000000000
[ 528.915198] x14: 0000000000000003 x13: 00000000000fe400 x12: 0000000000000000
[ 528.922371] x11: 0000000000000002 x10: 0000000000000aa0 x9 : ffff8000013d2020
[ 528.929543] x8 : 0000000000000018 x7 : 000000007b1703f8 x6 : 000000001ca72f86
[ 528.936715] x5 : 0000000033399ea7 x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 : ffff0001374d3acc
[ 528.943886] x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : ffff00010200de00 x0 : ffff000134ae3f80
[ 528.951058] Call trace:
[ 528.953516] __prestera_fi_is_direct+0x2c/0x68 [prestera]
[ 528.958952] __prestera_router_fib_event_work+0x100/0x158 [prestera]
[ 528.965348] process_one_work+0x208/0x488
[ 528.969387] worker_thread+0x4c/0x430
[ 528.973068] kthread+0x120/0x138
[ 528.976313] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
[ 528.979909] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
[ 528.984998] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 528.989645] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 53 at include/net/nexthop.h:468 __prestera_fi_is_direct+0x2c/0x68 [prestera]
[ 528.999628] Modules linked in: prestera_pci act_gact act_police sch_ingress cls_u32 cls_flower prestera arm64_delta_tn48m_dn_led(O) arm64_delta_tn48m_dn_cpld(O) [last unloaded: prestera_pci]
[ 529.016676] CPU: 3 PID: 53 Comm: kworker/u8:3 Tainted: G W O 6.4.5 #1
[ 529.024368] Hardware name: delta,tn48m-dn (DT)
[ 529.028830] Workqueue: prestera_ordered __prestera_router_fib_event_work [prestera]
[ 529.036539] pstate: 60000005 (nZCv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
[ 529.043533] pc : __prestera_fi_is_direct+0x2c/0x68 [prestera]
[ 529.049318] lr : __prestera_k_arb_fc_apply+0x280/0x2f8 [prestera]
[ 529.055452] sp : ffff80000b20bc60
[ 529.058781] x29: ffff80000b20bc60 x28: 0000000000000000 x27: ffff0001374d3a48
[ 529.065953] x26: ffff000105604000 x25: ffff000134af8a28 x24: ffff0001374d3800
[ 529.073126] x23: ffff000101c89148 x22: ffff000101c89148 x21: ffff00013641fda0
[ 529.080299] x20: ffff000101c89000 x19: ffff000101c89020 x18: 0000000000000059
[ 529.087471] x17: 0000000000000277 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: 0000000000000000
[ 529.094642] x14: 0000000000000003 x13: 00000000000fe400 x12: 0000000000000000
[ 529.101814] x11: 0000000000000002 x10: 0000000000000aa0 x9 : ffff8000013cee80
[ 529.108985] x8 : 0000000000000018 x7 : 000000007b1703f8 x6
---truncated---
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-17
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: ipu-bridge: Fix null pointer deref on SSDB/PLD parsing warnings
When ipu_bridge_parse_rotation() and ipu_bridge_parse_orientation() run
sensor->adev is not set yet.
So if either of the dev_warn() calls about unknown values are hit this
will lead to a NULL pointer deref.
Set sensor->adev earlier, with a borrowed ref to avoid making unrolling
on errors harder, to fix this.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-17
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nilfs2: do not write dirty data after degenerating to read-only
According to syzbot's report, mark_buffer_dirty() called from
nilfs_segctor_do_construct() outputs a warning with some patterns after
nilfs2 detects metadata corruption and degrades to read-only mode.
After such read-only degeneration, page cache data may be cleared through
nilfs_clear_dirty_page() which may also clear the uptodate flag for their
buffer heads. However, even after the degeneration, log writes are still
performed by unmount processing etc., which causes mark_buffer_dirty() to
be called for buffer heads without the "uptodate" flag and causes the
warning.
Since any writes should not be done to a read-only file system in the
first place, this fixes the warning in mark_buffer_dirty() by letting
nilfs_segctor_do_construct() abort early if in read-only mode.
This also changes the retry check of nilfs_segctor_write_out() to avoid
unnecessary log write retries if it detects -EROFS that
nilfs_segctor_do_construct() returned.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-17
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
lwt: Fix return values of BPF xmit ops
BPF encap ops can return different types of positive values, such like
NET_RX_DROP, NET_XMIT_CN, NETDEV_TX_BUSY, and so on, from function
skb_do_redirect and bpf_lwt_xmit_reroute. At the xmit hook, such return
values would be treated implicitly as LWTUNNEL_XMIT_CONTINUE in
ip(6)_finish_output2. When this happens, skbs that have been freed would
continue to the neighbor subsystem, causing use-after-free bug and
kernel crashes.
To fix the incorrect behavior, skb_do_redirect return values can be
simply discarded, the same as tc-egress behavior. On the other hand,
bpf_lwt_xmit_reroute returns useful errors to local senders, e.g. PMTU
information. Thus convert its return values to avoid the conflict with
LWTUNNEL_XMIT_CONTINUE.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-17
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fs/ntfs3: Enhance sanity check while generating attr_list
ni_create_attr_list uses WARN_ON to catch error cases while generating
attribute list, which only prints out stack trace and may not be enough.
This repalces them with more proper error handling flow.
[ 59.666332] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 000000000000000e
[ 59.673268] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[ 59.678354] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[ 59.682831] PGD 8000000005ff1067 P4D 8000000005ff1067 PUD 7dee067 PMD 0
[ 59.688556] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI
[ 59.692642] CPU: 0 PID: 198 Comm: poc Tainted: G B W 6.2.0-rc1+ #4
[ 59.698868] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
[ 59.708795] RIP: 0010:ni_create_attr_list+0x505/0x860
[ 59.713657] Code: 7e 10 e8 5e d0 d0 ff 45 0f b7 76 10 48 8d 7b 16 e8 00 d1 d0 ff 66 44 89 73 16 4d 8d 75 0e 4c 89 f7 e8 3f d0 d0 ff 4c 8d8
[ 59.731559] RSP: 0018:ffff88800a56f1e0 EFLAGS: 00010282
[ 59.735691] RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffff88800b7b5088 RCX: ffffffffb83079fe
[ 59.741792] RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000008 RDI: ffffffffbb7f9fc0
[ 59.748423] RBP: ffff88800a56f3a8 R08: ffff88800b7b50a0 R09: fffffbfff76ff3f9
[ 59.754654] R10: ffffffffbb7f9fc7 R11: fffffbfff76ff3f8 R12: ffff88800b756180
[ 59.761552] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 000000000000000e R15: 0000000000000050
[ 59.768323] FS: 00007feaa8c96440(0000) GS:ffff88806d400000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 59.776027] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 59.781395] CR2: 00007f3a2e0b1000 CR3: 000000000a5bc000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
[ 59.787607] Call Trace:
[ 59.790271] <TASK>
[ 59.792488] ? __pfx_ni_create_attr_list+0x10/0x10
[ 59.797235] ? kernel_text_address+0xd3/0xe0
[ 59.800856] ? unwind_get_return_address+0x3e/0x60
[ 59.805101] ? __kasan_check_write+0x18/0x20
[ 59.809296] ? preempt_count_sub+0x1c/0xd0
[ 59.813421] ni_ins_attr_ext+0x52c/0x5c0
[ 59.817034] ? __pfx_ni_ins_attr_ext+0x10/0x10
[ 59.821926] ? __vfs_setxattr+0x121/0x170
[ 59.825718] ? __vfs_setxattr_noperm+0x97/0x300
[ 59.829562] ? __vfs_setxattr_locked+0x145/0x170
[ 59.833987] ? vfs_setxattr+0x137/0x2a0
[ 59.836732] ? do_setxattr+0xce/0x150
[ 59.839807] ? setxattr+0x126/0x140
[ 59.842353] ? path_setxattr+0x164/0x180
[ 59.845275] ? __x64_sys_setxattr+0x71/0x90
[ 59.848838] ? do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x90
[ 59.851898] ? entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc
[ 59.857046] ? stack_depot_save+0x17/0x20
[ 59.860299] ni_insert_attr+0x1ba/0x420
[ 59.863104] ? __pfx_ni_insert_attr+0x10/0x10
[ 59.867069] ? preempt_count_sub+0x1c/0xd0
[ 59.869897] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x2b/0x50
[ 59.874088] ? __create_object+0x3ae/0x5d0
[ 59.877865] ni_insert_resident+0xc4/0x1c0
[ 59.881430] ? __pfx_ni_insert_resident+0x10/0x10
[ 59.886355] ? kasan_save_alloc_info+0x1f/0x30
[ 59.891117] ? __kasan_kmalloc+0x8b/0xa0
[ 59.894383] ntfs_set_ea+0x90d/0xbf0
[ 59.897703] ? __pfx_ntfs_set_ea+0x10/0x10
[ 59.901011] ? kernel_text_address+0xd3/0xe0
[ 59.905308] ? __kernel_text_address+0x16/0x50
[ 59.909811] ? unwind_get_return_address+0x3e/0x60
[ 59.914898] ? __pfx_stack_trace_consume_entry+0x10/0x10
[ 59.920250] ? arch_stack_walk+0xa2/0x100
[ 59.924560] ? filter_irq_stacks+0x27/0x80
[ 59.928722] ntfs_setxattr+0x405/0x440
[ 59.932512] ? __pfx_ntfs_setxattr+0x10/0x10
[ 59.936634] ? kvmalloc_node+0x2d/0x120
[ 59.940378] ? kasan_save_stack+0x41/0x60
[ 59.943870] ? kasan_save_stack+0x2a/0x60
[ 59.947719] ? kasan_set_track+0x29/0x40
[ 59.951417] ? kasan_save_alloc_info+0x1f/0x30
[ 59.955733] ? __kasan_kmalloc+0x8b/0xa0
[ 59.959598] ? __kmalloc_node+0x68/0x150
[ 59.963163] ? kvmalloc_node+0x2d/0x120
[ 59.966490] ? vmemdup_user+0x2b/0xa0
---truncated---
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
pstore/ram: Check start of empty przs during init
After commit 30696378f68a ("pstore/ram: Do not treat empty buffers as
valid"), initialization would assume a prz was valid after seeing that
the buffer_size is zero (regardless of the buffer start position). This
unchecked start value means it could be outside the bounds of the buffer,
leading to future access panics when written to:
sysdump_panic_event+0x3b4/0x5b8
atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x54/0x90
panic+0x1c8/0x42c
die+0x29c/0x2a8
die_kernel_fault+0x68/0x78
__do_kernel_fault+0x1c4/0x1e0
do_bad_area+0x40/0x100
do_translation_fault+0x68/0x80
do_mem_abort+0x68/0xf8
el1_da+0x1c/0xc0
__raw_writeb+0x38/0x174
__memcpy_toio+0x40/0xac
persistent_ram_update+0x44/0x12c
persistent_ram_write+0x1a8/0x1b8
ramoops_pstore_write+0x198/0x1e8
pstore_console_write+0x94/0xe0
...
To avoid this, also check if the prz start is 0 during the initialization
phase. If not, the next prz sanity check case will discover it (start >
size) and zap the buffer back to a sane state.
[kees: update commit log with backtrace and clarifications]
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
genirq/ipi: Fix NULL pointer deref in irq_data_get_affinity_mask()
If ipi_send_{mask|single}() is called with an invalid interrupt number, all
the local variables there will be NULL. ipi_send_verify() which is invoked
from these functions does verify its 'data' parameter, resulting in a
kernel oops in irq_data_get_affinity_mask() as the passed NULL pointer gets
dereferenced.
Add a missing NULL pointer check in ipi_send_verify()...
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with the SVACE static
analysis tool.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: conntrack: dccp: copy entire header to stack buffer, not just basic one
Eric Dumazet says:
nf_conntrack_dccp_packet() has an unique:
dh = skb_header_pointer(skb, dataoff, sizeof(_dh), &_dh);
And nothing more is 'pulled' from the packet, depending on the content.
dh->dccph_doff, and/or dh->dccph_x ...)
So dccp_ack_seq() is happily reading stuff past the _dh buffer.
BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in nf_conntrack_dccp_packet+0x1134/0x11c0
Read of size 4 at addr ffff000128f66e0c by task syz-executor.2/29371
[..]
Fix this by increasing the stack buffer to also include room for
the extra sequence numbers and all the known dccp packet type headers,
then pull again after the initial validation of the basic header.
While at it, mark packets invalid that lack 48bit sequence bit but
where RFC says the type MUST use them.
Compile tested only.
v2: first skb_header_pointer() now needs to adjust the size to
only pull the generic header. (Eric)
Heads-up: I intend to remove dccp conntrack support later this year.
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
USB: chipidea: fix memory leak with using debugfs_lookup()
When calling debugfs_lookup() the result must have dput() called on it,
otherwise the memory will leak over time. To make things simpler, just
call debugfs_lookup_and_remove() instead which handles all of the logic
at once.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: mac80211_hwsim: drop short frames
While technically some control frames like ACK are shorter and
end after Address 1, such frames shouldn't be forwarded through
wmediumd or similar userspace, so require the full 3-address
header to avoid accessing invalid memory if shorter frames are
passed in.
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-16