Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 4.14.210 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
PCI: pnv_php: Clean up allocated IRQs on unplug
When the root of a nested PCIe bridge configuration is unplugged, the
pnv_php driver leaked the allocated IRQ resources for the child bridges'
hotplug event notifications, resulting in a panic.
Fix this by walking all child buses and deallocating all its IRQ resources
before calling pci_hp_remove_devices().
Also modify the lifetime of the workqueue at struct pnv_php_slot::wq so
that it is only destroyed in pnv_php_free_slot(), instead of
pnv_php_disable_irq(). This is required since pnv_php_disable_irq() will
now be called by workers triggered by hot unplug interrupts, so the
workqueue needs to stay allocated.
The abridged kernel panic that occurs without this patch is as follows:
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 687 at kernel/irq/msi.c:292 msi_device_data_release+0x6c/0x9c
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 687 Comm: bash Not tainted 6.14.0-rc5+ #2
Call Trace:
msi_device_data_release+0x34/0x9c (unreliable)
release_nodes+0x64/0x13c
devres_release_all+0xc0/0x140
device_del+0x2d4/0x46c
pci_destroy_dev+0x5c/0x194
pci_hp_remove_devices+0x90/0x128
pci_hp_remove_devices+0x44/0x128
pnv_php_disable_slot+0x54/0xd4
power_write_file+0xf8/0x18c
pci_slot_attr_store+0x40/0x5c
sysfs_kf_write+0x64/0x78
kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x1b0/0x290
vfs_write+0x3bc/0x50c
ksys_write+0x84/0x140
system_call_exception+0x124/0x230
system_call_vectored_common+0x15c/0x2ec
[bhelgaas: tidy comments]
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-08-22
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/packet: fix a race in packet_set_ring() and packet_notifier()
When packet_set_ring() releases po->bind_lock, another thread can
run packet_notifier() and process an NETDEV_UP event.
This race and the fix are both similar to that of commit 15fe076edea7
("net/packet: fix a race in packet_bind() and packet_notifier()").
There too the packet_notifier NETDEV_UP event managed to run while a
po->bind_lock critical section had to be temporarily released. And
the fix was similarly to temporarily set po->num to zero to keep
the socket unhooked until the lock is retaken.
The po->bind_lock in packet_set_ring and packet_notifier precede the
introduction of git history.
CVSS Score
4.7
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-08-22
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
vsock: Do not allow binding to VMADDR_PORT_ANY
It is possible for a vsock to autobind to VMADDR_PORT_ANY. This can
cause a use-after-free when a connection is made to the bound socket.
The socket returned by accept() also has port VMADDR_PORT_ANY but is not
on the list of unbound sockets. Binding it will result in an extra
refcount decrement similar to the one fixed in fcdd2242c023 (vsock: Keep
the binding until socket destruction).
Modify the check in __vsock_bind_connectible() to also prevent binding
to VMADDR_PORT_ANY.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-08-22
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
eventpoll: Fix semi-unbounded recursion
Ensure that epoll instances can never form a graph deeper than
EP_MAX_NESTS+1 links.
Currently, ep_loop_check_proc() ensures that the graph is loop-free and
does some recursion depth checks, but those recursion depth checks don't
limit the depth of the resulting tree for two reasons:
- They don't look upwards in the tree.
- If there are multiple downwards paths of different lengths, only one of
the paths is actually considered for the depth check since commit
28d82dc1c4ed ("epoll: limit paths").
Essentially, the current recursion depth check in ep_loop_check_proc() just
serves to prevent it from recursing too deeply while checking for loops.
A more thorough check is done in reverse_path_check() after the new graph
edge has already been created; this checks, among other things, that no
paths going upwards from any non-epoll file with a length of more than 5
edges exist. However, this check does not apply to non-epoll files.
As a result, it is possible to recurse to a depth of at least roughly 500,
tested on v6.15. (I am unsure if deeper recursion is possible; and this may
have changed with commit 8c44dac8add7 ("eventpoll: Fix priority inversion
problem").)
To fix it:
1. In ep_loop_check_proc(), note the subtree depth of each visited node,
and use subtree depths for the total depth calculation even when a subtree
has already been visited.
2. Add ep_get_upwards_depth_proc() for similarly determining the maximum
depth of an upwards walk.
3. In ep_loop_check(), use these values to limit the total path length
between epoll nodes to EP_MAX_NESTS edges.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-08-19
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
staging: fbtft: fix potential memory leak in fbtft_framebuffer_alloc()
In the error paths after fb_info structure is successfully allocated,
the memory allocated in fb_deferred_io_init() for info->pagerefs is not
freed. Fix that by adding the cleanup function on the error path.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-08-19
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
iwlwifi: Add missing check for alloc_ordered_workqueue
Add check for the return value of alloc_ordered_workqueue since it may
return NULL pointer.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-08-19
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: rtl818x: Kill URBs before clearing tx status queue
In rtl8187_stop() move the call of usb_kill_anchored_urbs() before clearing
b_tx_status.queue. This change prevents callbacks from using already freed
skb due to anchor was not killed before freeing such skb.
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000080
#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
CPU: 7 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/7 Not tainted 6.15.0 #8 PREEMPT(voluntary)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
RIP: 0010:ieee80211_tx_status_irqsafe+0x21/0xc0 [mac80211]
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
rtl8187_tx_cb+0x116/0x150 [rtl8187]
__usb_hcd_giveback_urb+0x9d/0x120
usb_giveback_urb_bh+0xbb/0x140
process_one_work+0x19b/0x3c0
bh_worker+0x1a7/0x210
tasklet_action+0x10/0x30
handle_softirqs+0xf0/0x340
__irq_exit_rcu+0xcd/0xf0
common_interrupt+0x85/0xa0
</IRQ>
Tested on RTL8187BvE device.
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-08-19
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bpf: Reject narrower access to pointer ctx fields
The following BPF program, simplified from a syzkaller repro, causes a
kernel warning:
r0 = *(u8 *)(r1 + 169);
exit;
With pointer field sk being at offset 168 in __sk_buff. This access is
detected as a narrower read in bpf_skb_is_valid_access because it
doesn't match offsetof(struct __sk_buff, sk). It is therefore allowed
and later proceeds to bpf_convert_ctx_access. Note that for the
"is_narrower_load" case in the convert_ctx_accesses(), the insn->off
is aligned, so the cnt may not be 0 because it matches the
offsetof(struct __sk_buff, sk) in the bpf_convert_ctx_access. However,
the target_size stays 0 and the verifier errors with a kernel warning:
verifier bug: error during ctx access conversion(1)
This patch fixes that to return a proper "invalid bpf_context access
off=X size=Y" error on the load instruction.
The same issue affects multiple other fields in context structures that
allow narrow access. Some other non-affected fields (for sk_msg,
sk_lookup, and sockopt) were also changed to use bpf_ctx_range_ptr for
consistency.
Note this syzkaller crash was reported in the "Closes" link below, which
used to be about a different bug, fixed in
commit fce7bd8e385a ("bpf/verifier: Handle BPF_LOAD_ACQ instructions
in insn_def_regno()"). Because syzbot somehow confused the two bugs,
the new crash and repro didn't get reported to the mailing list.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-08-19
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
crypto: ccp - Fix crash when rebind ccp device for ccp.ko
When CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEV_CCP_DEBUGFS is enabled, rebinding
the ccp device causes the following crash:
$ echo '0000:0a:00.2' > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ccp/unbind
$ echo '0000:0a:00.2' > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ccp/bind
[ 204.976930] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000098
[ 204.978026] #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
[ 204.979126] #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
[ 204.980226] PGD 0 P4D 0
[ 204.981317] Oops: Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP NOPTI
...
[ 204.997852] Call Trace:
[ 204.999074] <TASK>
[ 205.000297] start_creating+0x9f/0x1c0
[ 205.001533] debugfs_create_dir+0x1f/0x170
[ 205.002769] ? srso_return_thunk+0x5/0x5f
[ 205.004000] ccp5_debugfs_setup+0x87/0x170 [ccp]
[ 205.005241] ccp5_init+0x8b2/0x960 [ccp]
[ 205.006469] ccp_dev_init+0xd4/0x150 [ccp]
[ 205.007709] sp_init+0x5f/0x80 [ccp]
[ 205.008942] sp_pci_probe+0x283/0x2e0 [ccp]
[ 205.010165] ? srso_return_thunk+0x5/0x5f
[ 205.011376] local_pci_probe+0x4f/0xb0
[ 205.012584] pci_device_probe+0xdb/0x230
[ 205.013810] really_probe+0xed/0x380
[ 205.015024] __driver_probe_device+0x7e/0x160
[ 205.016240] device_driver_attach+0x2f/0x60
[ 205.017457] bind_store+0x7c/0xb0
[ 205.018663] drv_attr_store+0x28/0x40
[ 205.019868] sysfs_kf_write+0x5f/0x70
[ 205.021065] kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x145/0x1d0
[ 205.022267] vfs_write+0x308/0x440
[ 205.023453] ksys_write+0x6d/0xe0
[ 205.024616] __x64_sys_write+0x1e/0x30
[ 205.025778] x64_sys_call+0x16ba/0x2150
[ 205.026942] do_syscall_64+0x56/0x1e0
[ 205.028108] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
[ 205.029276] RIP: 0033:0x7fbc36f10104
[ 205.030420] Code: 89 02 48 c7 c0 ff ff ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 66 90 48 8d 05 e1 08 2e 00 8b 00 85 c0 75 13 b8 01 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 54 f3 c3 66 90 41 54 55 49 89 d4 53 48 89 f5
This patch sets ccp_debugfs_dir to NULL after destroying it in
ccp5_debugfs_destroy, allowing the directory dentry to be
recreated when rebinding the ccp device.
Tested on AMD Ryzen 7 1700X.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-08-19
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
padata: Fix pd UAF once and for all
There is a race condition/UAF in padata_reorder that goes back
to the initial commit. A reference count is taken at the start
of the process in padata_do_parallel, and released at the end in
padata_serial_worker.
This reference count is (and only is) required for padata_replace
to function correctly. If padata_replace is never called then
there is no issue.
In the function padata_reorder which serves as the core of padata,
as soon as padata is added to queue->serial.list, and the associated
spin lock released, that padata may be processed and the reference
count on pd would go away.
Fix this by getting the next padata before the squeue->serial lock
is released.
In order to make this possible, simplify padata_reorder by only
calling it once the next padata arrives.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-08-19