Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 2.16.12 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
dmaengine: imx-sdma: Fix a possible memory leak in sdma_transfer_init
If the function sdma_load_context() fails, the sdma_desc will be
freed, but the allocated desc->bd is forgot to be freed.
We already met the sdma_load_context() failure case and the log as
below:
[ 450.699064] imx-sdma 30bd0000.dma-controller: Timeout waiting for CH0 ready
...
In this case, the desc->bd will not be freed without this change.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-03-27
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cpufreq: CPPC: Add u64 casts to avoid overflowing
The fields of the _CPC object are unsigned 32-bits values.
To avoid overflows while using _CPC's values, add 'u64' casts.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-03-27
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
w1: fix WARNING after calling w1_process()
I got the following WARNING message while removing driver(ds2482):
------------[ cut here ]------------
do not call blocking ops when !TASK_RUNNING; state=1 set at [<000000002d50bfb6>] w1_process+0x9e/0x1d0 [wire]
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 262 at kernel/sched/core.c:9817 __might_sleep+0x98/0xa0
CPU: 0 PID: 262 Comm: w1_bus_master1 Tainted: G N 6.1.0-rc3+ #307
RIP: 0010:__might_sleep+0x98/0xa0
Call Trace:
exit_signals+0x6c/0x550
do_exit+0x2b4/0x17e0
kthread_exit+0x52/0x60
kthread+0x16d/0x1e0
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
The state of task is set to TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE in loop in w1_process(),
set it to TASK_RUNNING when it breaks out of the loop to avoid the
warning.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-03-27
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
f2fs: fix to do sanity check on i_extra_isize in is_alive()
syzbot found a f2fs bug:
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in data_blkaddr fs/f2fs/f2fs.h:2891 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in is_alive fs/f2fs/gc.c:1117 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in gc_data_segment fs/f2fs/gc.c:1520 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in do_garbage_collect+0x386a/0x3df0 fs/f2fs/gc.c:1734
Read of size 4 at addr ffff888076557568 by task kworker/u4:3/52
CPU: 1 PID: 52 Comm: kworker/u4:3 Not tainted 6.1.0-rc4-syzkaller-00362-gfef7fd48922d #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/26/2022
Workqueue: writeback wb_workfn (flush-7:0)
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0xcd/0x134 lib/dump_stack.c:106
print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:284 [inline]
print_report+0x15e/0x45d mm/kasan/report.c:395
kasan_report+0xbb/0x1f0 mm/kasan/report.c:495
data_blkaddr fs/f2fs/f2fs.h:2891 [inline]
is_alive fs/f2fs/gc.c:1117 [inline]
gc_data_segment fs/f2fs/gc.c:1520 [inline]
do_garbage_collect+0x386a/0x3df0 fs/f2fs/gc.c:1734
f2fs_gc+0x88c/0x20a0 fs/f2fs/gc.c:1831
f2fs_balance_fs+0x544/0x6b0 fs/f2fs/segment.c:410
f2fs_write_inode+0x57e/0xe20 fs/f2fs/inode.c:753
write_inode fs/fs-writeback.c:1440 [inline]
__writeback_single_inode+0xcfc/0x1440 fs/fs-writeback.c:1652
writeback_sb_inodes+0x54d/0xf90 fs/fs-writeback.c:1870
wb_writeback+0x2c5/0xd70 fs/fs-writeback.c:2044
wb_do_writeback fs/fs-writeback.c:2187 [inline]
wb_workfn+0x2dc/0x12f0 fs/fs-writeback.c:2227
process_one_work+0x9bf/0x1710 kernel/workqueue.c:2289
worker_thread+0x665/0x1080 kernel/workqueue.c:2436
kthread+0x2e4/0x3a0 kernel/kthread.c:376
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:306
The root cause is that we forgot to do sanity check on .i_extra_isize
in below path, result in accessing invalid address later, fix it.
- gc_data_segment
- is_alive
- data_blkaddr
- offset_in_addr
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-03-27
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: brcmfmac: Check the count value of channel spec to prevent out-of-bounds reads
This patch fixes slab-out-of-bounds reads in brcmfmac that occur in
brcmf_construct_chaninfo() and brcmf_enable_bw40_2g() when the count
value of channel specifications provided by the device is greater than
the length of 'list->element[]', decided by the size of the 'list'
allocated with kzalloc(). The patch adds checks that make the functions
free the buffer and return -EINVAL if that is the case. Note that the
negative return is handled by the caller, brcmf_setup_wiphybands() or
brcmf_cfg80211_attach().
Found by a modified version of syzkaller.
Crash Report from brcmf_construct_chaninfo():
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in brcmf_setup_wiphybands+0x1238/0x1430
Read of size 4 at addr ffff888115f24600 by task kworker/0:2/1896
CPU: 0 PID: 1896 Comm: kworker/0:2 Tainted: G W O 5.14.0+ #132
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.12.1-0-ga5cab58e9a3f-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
Workqueue: usb_hub_wq hub_event
Call Trace:
dump_stack_lvl+0x57/0x7d
print_address_description.constprop.0.cold+0x93/0x334
kasan_report.cold+0x83/0xdf
brcmf_setup_wiphybands+0x1238/0x1430
brcmf_cfg80211_attach+0x2118/0x3fd0
brcmf_attach+0x389/0xd40
brcmf_usb_probe+0x12de/0x1690
usb_probe_interface+0x25f/0x710
really_probe+0x1be/0xa90
__driver_probe_device+0x2ab/0x460
driver_probe_device+0x49/0x120
__device_attach_driver+0x18a/0x250
bus_for_each_drv+0x123/0x1a0
__device_attach+0x207/0x330
bus_probe_device+0x1a2/0x260
device_add+0xa61/0x1ce0
usb_set_configuration+0x984/0x1770
usb_generic_driver_probe+0x69/0x90
usb_probe_device+0x9c/0x220
really_probe+0x1be/0xa90
__driver_probe_device+0x2ab/0x460
driver_probe_device+0x49/0x120
__device_attach_driver+0x18a/0x250
bus_for_each_drv+0x123/0x1a0
__device_attach+0x207/0x330
bus_probe_device+0x1a2/0x260
device_add+0xa61/0x1ce0
usb_new_device.cold+0x463/0xf66
hub_event+0x10d5/0x3330
process_one_work+0x873/0x13e0
worker_thread+0x8b/0xd10
kthread+0x379/0x450
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
Allocated by task 1896:
kasan_save_stack+0x1b/0x40
__kasan_kmalloc+0x7c/0x90
kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x19e/0x330
brcmf_setup_wiphybands+0x290/0x1430
brcmf_cfg80211_attach+0x2118/0x3fd0
brcmf_attach+0x389/0xd40
brcmf_usb_probe+0x12de/0x1690
usb_probe_interface+0x25f/0x710
really_probe+0x1be/0xa90
__driver_probe_device+0x2ab/0x460
driver_probe_device+0x49/0x120
__device_attach_driver+0x18a/0x250
bus_for_each_drv+0x123/0x1a0
__device_attach+0x207/0x330
bus_probe_device+0x1a2/0x260
device_add+0xa61/0x1ce0
usb_set_configuration+0x984/0x1770
usb_generic_driver_probe+0x69/0x90
usb_probe_device+0x9c/0x220
really_probe+0x1be/0xa90
__driver_probe_device+0x2ab/0x460
driver_probe_device+0x49/0x120
__device_attach_driver+0x18a/0x250
bus_for_each_drv+0x123/0x1a0
__device_attach+0x207/0x330
bus_probe_device+0x1a2/0x260
device_add+0xa61/0x1ce0
usb_new_device.cold+0x463/0xf66
hub_event+0x10d5/0x3330
process_one_work+0x873/0x13e0
worker_thread+0x8b/0xd10
kthread+0x379/0x450
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888115f24000
which belongs to the cache kmalloc-2k of size 2048
The buggy address is located 1536 bytes inside of
2048-byte region [ffff888115f24000, ffff888115f24800)
Memory state around the buggy address:
ffff888115f24500: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
ffff888115f24580: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>ffff888115f24600: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
^
ffff888115f24680: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
ffff888115f24700: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
==================================================================
Crash Report from brcmf_enable_bw40_2g():
==========
---truncated---
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-03-27
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fbdev: smscufx: fix error handling code in ufx_usb_probe
The current error handling code in ufx_usb_probe have many unmatching
issues, e.g., missing ufx_free_usb_list, destroy_modedb label should
only include framebuffer_release, fb_dealloc_cmap only matches
fb_alloc_cmap.
My local syzkaller reports a memory leak bug:
memory leak in ufx_usb_probe
BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff88802f879580 (size 128):
comm "kworker/0:7", pid 17416, jiffies 4295067474 (age 46.710s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
80 21 7c 2e 80 88 ff ff 18 d0 d0 0c 80 88 ff ff .!|.............
00 d0 d0 0c 80 88 ff ff e0 ff ff ff 0f 00 00 00 ................
backtrace:
[<ffffffff814c99a0>] kmalloc_trace+0x20/0x90 mm/slab_common.c:1045
[<ffffffff824d219c>] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:553 [inline]
[<ffffffff824d219c>] kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:689 [inline]
[<ffffffff824d219c>] ufx_alloc_urb_list drivers/video/fbdev/smscufx.c:1873 [inline]
[<ffffffff824d219c>] ufx_usb_probe+0x11c/0x15a0 drivers/video/fbdev/smscufx.c:1655
[<ffffffff82d17927>] usb_probe_interface+0x177/0x370 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:396
[<ffffffff82712f0d>] call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:560 [inline]
[<ffffffff82712f0d>] really_probe+0x12d/0x390 drivers/base/dd.c:639
[<ffffffff8271322f>] __driver_probe_device+0xbf/0x140 drivers/base/dd.c:778
[<ffffffff827132da>] driver_probe_device+0x2a/0x120 drivers/base/dd.c:808
[<ffffffff82713c27>] __device_attach_driver+0xf7/0x150 drivers/base/dd.c:936
[<ffffffff82710137>] bus_for_each_drv+0xb7/0x100 drivers/base/bus.c:427
[<ffffffff827136b5>] __device_attach+0x105/0x2d0 drivers/base/dd.c:1008
[<ffffffff82711d36>] bus_probe_device+0xc6/0xe0 drivers/base/bus.c:487
[<ffffffff8270e242>] device_add+0x642/0xdc0 drivers/base/core.c:3517
[<ffffffff82d14d5f>] usb_set_configuration+0x8ef/0xb80 drivers/usb/core/message.c:2170
[<ffffffff82d2576c>] usb_generic_driver_probe+0x8c/0xc0 drivers/usb/core/generic.c:238
[<ffffffff82d16ffc>] usb_probe_device+0x5c/0x140 drivers/usb/core/driver.c:293
[<ffffffff82712f0d>] call_driver_probe drivers/base/dd.c:560 [inline]
[<ffffffff82712f0d>] really_probe+0x12d/0x390 drivers/base/dd.c:639
[<ffffffff8271322f>] __driver_probe_device+0xbf/0x140 drivers/base/dd.c:778
Fix this bug by rewriting the error handling code in ufx_usb_probe.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-03-27
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
f2fs: initialize locks earlier in f2fs_fill_super()
syzbot is reporting lockdep warning at f2fs_handle_error() [1], for
spin_lock(&sbi->error_lock) is called before spin_lock_init() is called.
For safe locking in error handling, move initialization of locks (and
obvious structures) in f2fs_fill_super() to immediately after memory
allocation.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-03-27
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: allow exp not to be removed in nf_ct_find_expectation
Currently nf_conntrack_in() calling nf_ct_find_expectation() will
remove the exp from the hash table. However, in some scenario, we
expect the exp not to be removed when the created ct will not be
confirmed, like in OVS and TC conntrack in the following patches.
This patch allows exp not to be removed by setting IPS_CONFIRMED
in the status of the tmpl.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-03-14
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drop_monitor: fix incorrect initialization order
Syzkaller reports the following bug:
BUG: spinlock bad magic on CPU#1, syz-executor.0/7995
lock: 0xffff88805303f3e0, .magic: 00000000, .owner: <none>/-1, .owner_cpu: 0
CPU: 1 PID: 7995 Comm: syz-executor.0 Tainted: G E 5.10.209+ #1
Hardware name: VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual Platform/440BX Desktop Reference Platform, BIOS 6.00 11/12/2020
Call Trace:
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:77 [inline]
dump_stack+0x119/0x179 lib/dump_stack.c:118
debug_spin_lock_before kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c:83 [inline]
do_raw_spin_lock+0x1f6/0x270 kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c:112
__raw_spin_lock_irqsave include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:117 [inline]
_raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x50/0x70 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:159
reset_per_cpu_data+0xe6/0x240 [drop_monitor]
net_dm_cmd_trace+0x43d/0x17a0 [drop_monitor]
genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0x22f/0x330 net/netlink/genetlink.c:739
genl_family_rcv_msg net/netlink/genetlink.c:783 [inline]
genl_rcv_msg+0x341/0x5a0 net/netlink/genetlink.c:800
netlink_rcv_skb+0x14d/0x440 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2497
genl_rcv+0x29/0x40 net/netlink/genetlink.c:811
netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1322 [inline]
netlink_unicast+0x54b/0x800 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1348
netlink_sendmsg+0x914/0xe00 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1916
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:651 [inline]
__sock_sendmsg+0x157/0x190 net/socket.c:663
____sys_sendmsg+0x712/0x870 net/socket.c:2378
___sys_sendmsg+0xf8/0x170 net/socket.c:2432
__sys_sendmsg+0xea/0x1b0 net/socket.c:2461
do_syscall_64+0x30/0x40 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x62/0xc7
RIP: 0033:0x7f3f9815aee9
Code: ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 b0 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007f3f972bf0c8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f3f9826d050 RCX: 00007f3f9815aee9
RDX: 0000000020000000 RSI: 0000000020001300 RDI: 0000000000000007
RBP: 00007f3f981b63bd R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 000000000000006e R14: 00007f3f9826d050 R15: 00007ffe01ee6768
If drop_monitor is built as a kernel module, syzkaller may have time
to send a netlink NET_DM_CMD_START message during the module loading.
This will call the net_dm_monitor_start() function that uses
a spinlock that has not yet been initialized.
To fix this, let's place resource initialization above the registration
of a generic netlink family.
Found by InfoTeCS on behalf of Linux Verification Center
(linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-03-12
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
acct: perform last write from workqueue
In [1] it was reported that the acct(2) system call can be used to
trigger NULL deref in cases where it is set to write to a file that
triggers an internal lookup. This can e.g., happen when pointing acc(2)
to /sys/power/resume. At the point the where the write to this file
happens the calling task has already exited and called exit_fs(). A
lookup will thus trigger a NULL-deref when accessing current->fs.
Reorganize the code so that the the final write happens from the
workqueue but with the caller's credentials. This preserves the
(strange) permission model and has almost no regression risk.
This api should stop to exist though.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-03-12