Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 3.4.78 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: solo6x10: Check for out of bounds chip_id
Clang with CONFIG_UBSAN_SHIFT=y noticed a condition where a signed type
(literal "1" is an "int") could end up being shifted beyond 32 bits,
so instrumentation was added (and due to the double is_tw286x() call
seen via inlining), Clang decides the second one must now be undefined
behavior and elides the rest of the function[1]. This is a known problem
with Clang (that is still being worked on), but we can avoid the entire
problem by actually checking the existing max chip ID, and now there is
no runtime instrumentation added at all since everything is known to be
within bounds.
Additionally use an unsigned value for the shift to remove the
instrumentation even without the explicit bounds checking.
[hverkuil: fix checkpatch warning for is_tw286x]
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-05-08
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ACPI: processor: Fix NULL-pointer dereference in acpi_processor_errata_piix4()
In acpi_processor_errata_piix4(), the pointer dev is first assigned an IDE
device and then reassigned an ISA device:
dev = pci_get_subsys(..., PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_82371AB, ...);
dev = pci_get_subsys(..., PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_82371AB_0, ...);
If the first lookup succeeds but the second fails, dev becomes NULL. This
leads to a potential null-pointer dereference when dev_dbg() is called:
if (errata.piix4.bmisx)
dev_dbg(&dev->dev, ...);
To prevent this, use two temporary pointers and retrieve each device
independently, avoiding overwriting dev with a possible NULL value.
[ rjw: Subject adjustment, added an empty code line ]
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-05-08
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
dm: remove fake timeout to avoid leak request
Since commit 15f73f5b3e59 ("blk-mq: move failure injection out of
blk_mq_complete_request"), drivers are responsible for calling
blk_should_fake_timeout() at appropriate code paths and opportunities.
However, the dm driver does not implement its own timeout handler and
relies on the timeout handling of its slave devices.
If an io-timeout-fail error is injected to a dm device, the request
will be leaked and never completed, causing tasks to hang indefinitely.
Reproduce:
1. prepare dm which has iscsi slave device
2. inject io-timeout-fail to dm
echo 1 >/sys/class/block/dm-0/io-timeout-fail
echo 100 >/sys/kernel/debug/fail_io_timeout/probability
echo 10 >/sys/kernel/debug/fail_io_timeout/times
3. read/write dm
4. iscsiadm -m node -u
Result: hang task like below
[ 862.243768] INFO: task kworker/u514:2:151 blocked for more than 122 seconds.
[ 862.244133] Tainted: G E 6.19.0-rc1+ #51
[ 862.244337] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
[ 862.244718] task:kworker/u514:2 state:D stack:0 pid:151 tgid:151 ppid:2 task_flags:0x4288060 flags:0x00080000
[ 862.245024] Workqueue: iscsi_ctrl_3:1 __iscsi_unbind_session [scsi_transport_iscsi]
[ 862.245264] Call Trace:
[ 862.245587] <TASK>
[ 862.245814] __schedule+0x810/0x15c0
[ 862.246557] schedule+0x69/0x180
[ 862.246760] blk_mq_freeze_queue_wait+0xde/0x120
[ 862.247688] elevator_change+0x16d/0x460
[ 862.247893] elevator_set_none+0x87/0xf0
[ 862.248798] blk_unregister_queue+0x12e/0x2a0
[ 862.248995] __del_gendisk+0x231/0x7e0
[ 862.250143] del_gendisk+0x12f/0x1d0
[ 862.250339] sd_remove+0x85/0x130 [sd_mod]
[ 862.250650] device_release_driver_internal+0x36d/0x530
[ 862.250849] bus_remove_device+0x1dd/0x3f0
[ 862.251042] device_del+0x38a/0x930
[ 862.252095] __scsi_remove_device+0x293/0x360
[ 862.252291] scsi_remove_target+0x486/0x760
[ 862.252654] __iscsi_unbind_session+0x18a/0x3e0 [scsi_transport_iscsi]
[ 862.252886] process_one_work+0x633/0xe50
[ 862.253101] worker_thread+0x6df/0xf10
[ 862.253647] kthread+0x36d/0x720
[ 862.254533] ret_from_fork+0x2a6/0x470
[ 862.255852] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
[ 862.256037] </TASK>
Remove the blk_should_fake_timeout() check from dm, as dm has no
native timeout handling and should not attempt to fake timeouts.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-05-08
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: don't BUG() on unexpected delayed ref type in run_one_delayed_ref()
There is no need to BUG(), we can just return an error and log an error
message.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-05-08
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
APEI/GHES: ensure that won't go past CPER allocated record
The logic at ghes_new() prevents allocating too large records, by
checking if they're bigger than GHES_ESTATUS_MAX_SIZE (currently, 64KB).
Yet, the allocation is done with the actual number of pages from the
CPER bios table location, which can be smaller.
Yet, a bad firmware could send data with a different size, which might
be bigger than the allocated memory, causing an OOPS:
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address fff00000f9b40000
Mem abort info:
ESR = 0x0000000096000007
EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
SET = 0, FnV = 0
EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
FSC = 0x07: level 3 translation fault
Data abort info:
ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000007, ISS2 = 0x00000000
CM = 0, WnR = 0, TnD = 0, TagAccess = 0
GCS = 0, Overlay = 0, DirtyBit = 0, Xs = 0
swapper pgtable: 4k pages, 52-bit VAs, pgdp=000000008ba16000
[fff00000f9b40000] pgd=180000013ffff403, p4d=180000013fffe403, pud=180000013f85b403, pmd=180000013f68d403, pte=0000000000000000
Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000007 [#1] SMP
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 303 Comm: kworker/0:1 Not tainted 6.19.0-rc1-00002-gda407d200220 #34 PREEMPT
Hardware name: QEMU QEMU Virtual Machine, BIOS unknown 02/02/2022
Workqueue: kacpi_notify acpi_os_execute_deferred
pstate: 214020c5 (nzCv daIF +PAN -UAO -TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : hex_dump_to_buffer+0x30c/0x4a0
lr : hex_dump_to_buffer+0x328/0x4a0
sp : ffff800080e13880
x29: ffff800080e13880 x28: ffffac9aba86f6a8 x27: 0000000000000083
x26: fff00000f9b3fffc x25: 0000000000000004 x24: 0000000000000004
x23: ffff800080e13905 x22: 0000000000000010 x21: 0000000000000083
x20: 0000000000000001 x19: 0000000000000008 x18: 0000000000000010
x17: 0000000000000001 x16: 00000007c7f20fec x15: 0000000000000020
x14: 0000000000000008 x13: 0000000000081020 x12: 0000000000000008
x11: ffff800080e13905 x10: ffff800080e13988 x9 : 0000000000000000
x8 : 0000000000000000 x7 : 0000000000000001 x6 : 0000000000000020
x5 : 0000000000000030 x4 : 00000000fffffffe x3 : 0000000000000000
x2 : ffffac9aba78c1c8 x1 : ffffac9aba76d0a8 x0 : 0000000000000008
Call trace:
hex_dump_to_buffer+0x30c/0x4a0 (P)
print_hex_dump+0xac/0x170
cper_estatus_print_section+0x90c/0x968
cper_estatus_print+0xf0/0x158
__ghes_print_estatus+0xa0/0x148
ghes_proc+0x1bc/0x220
ghes_notify_hed+0x5c/0xb8
notifier_call_chain+0x78/0x148
blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x4c/0x80
acpi_hed_notify+0x28/0x40
acpi_ev_notify_dispatch+0x50/0x80
acpi_os_execute_deferred+0x24/0x48
process_one_work+0x15c/0x3b0
worker_thread+0x2d0/0x400
kthread+0x148/0x228
ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
Code: 6b14033f 540001ad a94707e2 f100029f (b8747b44)
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
Prevent that by taking the actual allocated are into account when
checking for CPER length.
[ rjw: Subject tweaks ]
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-05-06
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
gfs2: fiemap page fault fix
In gfs2_fiemap(), we are calling iomap_fiemap() while holding the inode
glock. This can lead to recursive glock taking if the fiemap buffer is
memory mapped to the same inode and accessing it triggers a page fault.
Fix by disabling page faults for iomap_fiemap() and faulting in the
buffer by hand if necessary.
Fixes xfstest generic/742.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-05-06
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
hfsplus: pretend special inodes as regular files
Since commit af153bb63a33 ("vfs: catch invalid modes in may_open()")
requires any inode be one of S_IFDIR/S_IFLNK/S_IFREG/S_IFCHR/S_IFBLK/
S_IFIFO/S_IFSOCK type, use S_IFREG for special inodes.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-05-06
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: libertas: fix WARNING in usb_tx_block
The function usb_tx_block() submits cardp->tx_urb without ensuring that
any previous transmission on this URB has completed. If a second call
occurs while the URB is still active (e.g. during rapid firmware loading),
usb_submit_urb() detects the active state and triggers a warning:
'URB submitted while active'.
Fix this by enforcing serialization: call usb_kill_urb() before
submitting the new request. This ensures the URB is idle and safe to reuse.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-05-06
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
alpha: fix user-space corruption during memory compaction
Alpha systems can suffer sporadic user-space crashes and heap
corruption when memory compaction is enabled.
Symptoms include SIGSEGV, glibc allocator failures (e.g. "unaligned
tcache chunk"), and compiler internal errors. The failures disappear
when compaction is disabled or when using global TLB invalidation.
The root cause is insufficient TLB shootdown during page migration.
Alpha relies on ASN-based MM context rollover for instruction cache
coherency, but this alone is not sufficient to prevent stale data or
instruction translations from surviving migration.
Fix this by introducing a migration-specific helper that combines:
- MM context invalidation (ASN rollover),
- immediate per-CPU TLB invalidation (TBI),
- synchronous cross-CPU shootdown when required.
The helper is used only by migration/compaction paths to avoid changing
global TLB semantics.
Additionally, update flush_tlb_other(), pte_clear(), to use
READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() for correct SMP memory ordering.
This fixes observed crashes on both UP and SMP Alpha systems.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-05-06
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
usb: chipidea: udc: fix DMA and SG cleanup in _ep_nuke()
The ChipIdea UDC driver can encounter "not page aligned sg buffer"
errors when a USB device is reconnected after being disconnected
during an active transfer. This occurs because _ep_nuke() returns
requests to the gadget layer without properly unmapping DMA buffers
or cleaning up scatter-gather bounce buffers.
Root cause:
When a disconnect happens during a multi-segment DMA transfer, the
request's num_mapped_sgs field and sgt.sgl pointer remain set with
stale values. The request is returned to the gadget driver with status
-ESHUTDOWN but still has active DMA state. If the gadget driver reuses
this request on reconnect without reinitializing it, the stale DMA
state causes _hardware_enqueue() to skip DMA mapping (seeing non-zero
num_mapped_sgs) and attempt to use freed/invalid DMA addresses,
leading to alignment errors and potential memory corruption.
The normal completion path via _hardware_dequeue() properly calls
usb_gadget_unmap_request_by_dev() and sglist_do_debounce() before
returning the request. The _ep_nuke() path must do the same cleanup
to ensure requests are returned in a clean, reusable state.
Fix:
Add DMA unmapping and bounce buffer cleanup to _ep_nuke() to mirror
the cleanup sequence in _hardware_dequeue():
- Call usb_gadget_unmap_request_by_dev() if num_mapped_sgs is set
- Call sglist_do_debounce() with copy=false if bounce buffer exists
This ensures that when requests are returned due to endpoint shutdown,
they don't retain stale DMA mappings. The 'false' parameter to
sglist_do_debounce() prevents copying data back (appropriate for
shutdown path where transfer was aborted).
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-05-06