Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 6.1.123 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
spi: cadence-quadspi: Implement refcount to handle unbind during busy
driver support indirect read and indirect write operation with
assumption no force device removal(unbind) operation. However
force device removal(removal) is still available to root superuser.
Unbinding driver during operation causes kernel crash. This changes
ensure driver able to handle such operation for indirect read and
indirect write by implementing refcount to track attached devices
to the controller and gracefully wait and until attached devices
remove operation completed before proceed with removal operation.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-20
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fbcon: fix integer overflow in fbcon_do_set_font
Fix integer overflow vulnerabilities in fbcon_do_set_font() where font
size calculations could overflow when handling user-controlled font
parameters.
The vulnerabilities occur when:
1. CALC_FONTSZ(h, pitch, charcount) performs h * pith * charcount
multiplication with user-controlled values that can overflow.
2. FONT_EXTRA_WORDS * sizeof(int) + size addition can also overflow
3. This results in smaller allocations than expected, leading to buffer
overflows during font data copying.
Add explicit overflow checking using check_mul_overflow() and
check_add_overflow() kernel helpers to safety validate all size
calculations before allocation.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
crypto: af_alg - Disallow concurrent writes in af_alg_sendmsg
Issuing two writes to the same af_alg socket is bogus as the
data will be interleaved in an unpredictable fashion. Furthermore,
concurrent writes may create inconsistencies in the internal
socket state.
Disallow this by adding a new ctx->write field that indiciates
exclusive ownership for writing.
CVSS Score
3.3
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-13
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
iommu/amd/pgtbl: Fix possible race while increase page table level
The AMD IOMMU host page table implementation supports dynamic page table levels
(up to 6 levels), starting with a 3-level configuration that expands based on
IOVA address. The kernel maintains a root pointer and current page table level
to enable proper page table walks in alloc_pte()/fetch_pte() operations.
The IOMMU IOVA allocator initially starts with 32-bit address and onces its
exhuasted it switches to 64-bit address (max address is determined based
on IOMMU and device DMA capability). To support larger IOVA, AMD IOMMU
driver increases page table level.
But in unmap path (iommu_v1_unmap_pages()), fetch_pte() reads
pgtable->[root/mode] without lock. So its possible that in exteme corner case,
when increase_address_space() is updating pgtable->[root/mode], fetch_pte()
reads wrong page table level (pgtable->mode). It does compare the value with
level encoded in page table and returns NULL. This will result is
iommu_unmap ops to fail and upper layer may retry/log WARN_ON.
CPU 0 CPU 1
------ ------
map pages unmap pages
alloc_pte() -> increase_address_space() iommu_v1_unmap_pages() -> fetch_pte()
pgtable->root = pte (new root value)
READ pgtable->[mode/root]
Reads new root, old mode
Updates mode (pgtable->mode += 1)
Since Page table level updates are infrequent and already synchronized with a
spinlock, implement seqcount to enable lock-free read operations on the read path.
CVSS Score
4.7
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-09
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tcp: Clear tcp_sk(sk)->fastopen_rsk in tcp_disconnect().
syzbot reported the splat below where a socket had tcp_sk(sk)->fastopen_rsk
in the TCP_ESTABLISHED state. [0]
syzbot reused the server-side TCP Fast Open socket as a new client before
the TFO socket completes 3WHS:
1. accept()
2. connect(AF_UNSPEC)
3. connect() to another destination
As of accept(), sk->sk_state is TCP_SYN_RECV, and tcp_disconnect() changes
it to TCP_CLOSE and makes connect() possible, which restarts timers.
Since tcp_disconnect() forgot to clear tcp_sk(sk)->fastopen_rsk, the
retransmit timer triggered the warning and the intended packet was not
retransmitted.
Let's call reqsk_fastopen_remove() in tcp_disconnect().
[0]:
WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 0 at net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c:542 tcp_retransmit_timer (net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c:542 (discriminator 7))
Modules linked in:
CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/2 Not tainted 6.17.0-rc5-g201825fb4278 #62 PREEMPT(voluntary)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:tcp_retransmit_timer (net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c:542 (discriminator 7))
Code: 41 55 41 54 55 53 48 8b af b8 08 00 00 48 89 fb 48 85 ed 0f 84 55 01 00 00 0f b6 47 12 3c 03 74 0c 0f b6 47 12 3c 04 74 04 90 <0f> 0b 90 48 8b 85 c0 00 00 00 48 89 ef 48 8b 40 30 e8 6a 4f 06 3e
RSP: 0018:ffffc900002f8d40 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: 0000000000000002 RBX: ffff888106911400 RCX: 0000000000000017
RDX: 0000000002517619 RSI: ffffffff83764080 RDI: ffff888106911400
RBP: ffff888106d5c000 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffffc900002f8de8
R10: 00000000000000c2 R11: ffffc900002f8ff8 R12: ffff888106911540
R13: ffff888106911480 R14: ffff888106911840 R15: ffffc900002f8de0
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88907b768000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f8044d69d90 CR3: 0000000002c30003 CR4: 0000000000370ef0
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
tcp_write_timer (net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c:738)
call_timer_fn (kernel/time/timer.c:1747)
__run_timers (kernel/time/timer.c:1799 kernel/time/timer.c:2372)
timer_expire_remote (kernel/time/timer.c:2385 kernel/time/timer.c:2376 kernel/time/timer.c:2135)
tmigr_handle_remote_up (kernel/time/timer_migration.c:944 kernel/time/timer_migration.c:1035)
__walk_groups.isra.0 (kernel/time/timer_migration.c:533 (discriminator 1))
tmigr_handle_remote (kernel/time/timer_migration.c:1096)
handle_softirqs (./arch/x86/include/asm/jump_label.h:36 ./include/trace/events/irq.h:142 kernel/softirq.c:580)
irq_exit_rcu (kernel/softirq.c:614 kernel/softirq.c:453 kernel/softirq.c:680 kernel/softirq.c:696)
sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt (arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1050 (discriminator 35) arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1050 (discriminator 35))
</IRQ>
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-09
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: hisi_sas: Grab sas_dev lock when traversing the members of sas_dev.list
When freeing slots in function slot_complete_v3_hw(), it is possible that
sas_dev.list is being traversed elsewhere, and it may trigger a NULL
pointer exception, such as follows:
==>cq thread ==>scsi_eh_6
==>scsi_error_handler()
==>sas_eh_handle_sas_errors()
==>sas_scsi_find_task()
==>lldd_abort_task()
==>slot_complete_v3_hw() ==>hisi_sas_abort_task()
==>hisi_sas_slot_task_free() ==>dereg_device_v3_hw()
==>list_del_init() ==>list_for_each_entry_safe()
[ 7165.434918] sas: Enter sas_scsi_recover_host busy: 32 failed: 32
[ 7165.434926] sas: trying to find task 0x00000000769b5ba5
[ 7165.434927] sas: sas_scsi_find_task: aborting task 0x00000000769b5ba5
[ 7165.434940] hisi_sas_v3_hw 0000:b4:02.0: slot complete: task(00000000769b5ba5) aborted
[ 7165.434964] hisi_sas_v3_hw 0000:b4:02.0: slot complete: task(00000000c9f7aa07) ignored
[ 7165.434965] hisi_sas_v3_hw 0000:b4:02.0: slot complete: task(00000000e2a1cf01) ignored
[ 7165.434968] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000000
[ 7165.434972] hisi_sas_v3_hw 0000:b4:02.0: slot complete: task(0000000022d52d93) ignored
[ 7165.434975] hisi_sas_v3_hw 0000:b4:02.0: slot complete: task(0000000066a7516c) ignored
[ 7165.434976] Mem abort info:
[ 7165.434982] ESR = 0x96000004
[ 7165.434991] Exception class = DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
[ 7165.434992] SET = 0, FnV = 0
[ 7165.434993] EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
[ 7165.434994] Data abort info:
[ 7165.434994] ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000004
[ 7165.434995] CM = 0, WnR = 0
[ 7165.434997] user pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp = 00000000f29543f2
[ 7165.434998] [0000000000000000] pgd=0000000000000000
[ 7165.435003] Internal error: Oops: 96000004 [#1] SMP
[ 7165.439863] Process scsi_eh_6 (pid: 4109, stack limit = 0x00000000c43818d5)
[ 7165.468862] pstate: 00c00009 (nzcv daif +PAN +UAO)
[ 7165.473637] pc : dereg_device_v3_hw+0x68/0xa8 [hisi_sas_v3_hw]
[ 7165.479443] lr : dereg_device_v3_hw+0x2c/0xa8 [hisi_sas_v3_hw]
[ 7165.485247] sp : ffff00001d623bc0
[ 7165.488546] x29: ffff00001d623bc0 x28: ffffa027d03b9508
[ 7165.493835] x27: ffff80278ed50af0 x26: ffffa027dd31e0a8
[ 7165.499123] x25: ffffa027d9b27f88 x24: ffffa027d9b209f8
[ 7165.504411] x23: ffffa027c45b0d60 x22: ffff80278ec07c00
[ 7165.509700] x21: 0000000000000008 x20: ffffa027d9b209f8
[ 7165.514988] x19: ffffa027d9b27f88 x18: ffffffffffffffff
[ 7165.520276] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000
[ 7165.525564] x15: ffff0000091d9708 x14: ffff0000093b7dc8
[ 7165.530852] x13: ffff0000093b7a23 x12: 6e7265746e692067
[ 7165.536140] x11: 0000000000000000 x10: 0000000000000bb0
[ 7165.541429] x9 : ffff00001d6238f0 x8 : ffffa027d877af00
[ 7165.546718] x7 : ffffa027d6329600 x6 : ffff7e809f58ca00
[ 7165.552006] x5 : 0000000000001f8a x4 : 000000000000088e
[ 7165.557295] x3 : ffffa027d9b27fa8 x2 : 0000000000000000
[ 7165.562583] x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : 000000003000188e
[ 7165.567872] Call trace:
[ 7165.570309] dereg_device_v3_hw+0x68/0xa8 [hisi_sas_v3_hw]
[ 7165.575775] hisi_sas_abort_task+0x248/0x358 [hisi_sas_main]
[ 7165.581415] sas_eh_handle_sas_errors+0x258/0x8e0 [libsas]
[ 7165.586876] sas_scsi_recover_host+0x134/0x458 [libsas]
[ 7165.592082] scsi_error_handler+0xb4/0x488
[ 7165.596163] kthread+0x134/0x138
[ 7165.599380] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18
[ 7165.602940] Code: d5033e9f b9000040 aa0103e2 eb03003f (f9400021)
[ 7165.609004] kernel fault(0x1) notification starting on CPU 75
[ 7165.700728] ---[ end trace fc042cbbea224efc ]---
[ 7165.705326] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception
To fix the issue, grab sas_dev lock when traversing the members of
sas_dev.list in dereg_device_v3_hw() and hisi_sas_release_tasks() to avoid
concurrency of adding and deleting member. When
---truncated---
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-07
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: rtw88: delete timer and free skb queue when unloading
Fix possible crash and memory leak on driver unload by deleting
TX purge timer and freeing C2H queue in 'rtw_core_deinit()',
shrink critical section in the latter by freeing COEX queue
out of TX report lock scope.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/amdgpu: unmap and remove csa_va properly
Root PD BO should be reserved before unmap and remove
a bo_va from VM otherwise lockdep will complain.
v2: check fpriv->csa_va is not NULL instead of amdgpu_mcbp (christian)
[14616.936827] WARNING: CPU: 6 PID: 1711 at drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_vm.c:1762 amdgpu_vm_bo_del+0x399/0x3f0 [amdgpu]
[14616.937096] Call Trace:
[14616.937097] <TASK>
[14616.937102] amdgpu_driver_postclose_kms+0x249/0x2f0 [amdgpu]
[14616.937187] drm_file_free+0x1d6/0x300 [drm]
[14616.937207] drm_close_helper.isra.0+0x62/0x70 [drm]
[14616.937220] drm_release+0x5e/0x100 [drm]
[14616.937234] __fput+0x9f/0x280
[14616.937239] ____fput+0xe/0x20
[14616.937241] task_work_run+0x61/0x90
[14616.937246] exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x215/0x220
[14616.937251] syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x2a/0x60
[14616.937254] do_syscall_64+0x48/0x90
[14616.937257] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: insert tree mod log move in push_node_left
There is a fairly unlikely race condition in tree mod log rewind that
can result in a kernel panic which has the following trace:
[530.569] BTRFS critical (device sda3): unable to find logical 0 length 4096
[530.585] BTRFS critical (device sda3): unable to find logical 0 length 4096
[530.602] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000002
[530.618] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[530.629] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[530.641] PGD 0 P4D 0
[530.647] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
[530.654] CPU: 30 PID: 398973 Comm: below Kdump: loaded Tainted: G S O K 5.12.0-0_fbk13_clang_7455_gb24de3bdb045 #1
[530.680] Hardware name: Quanta Mono Lake-M.2 SATA 1HY9U9Z001G/Mono Lake-M.2 SATA, BIOS F20_3A15 08/16/2017
[530.703] RIP: 0010:__btrfs_map_block+0xaa/0xd00
[530.755] RSP: 0018:ffffc9002c2f7600 EFLAGS: 00010246
[530.767] RAX: ffffffffffffffea RBX: ffff888292e41000 RCX: f2702d8b8be15100
[530.784] RDX: ffff88885fda6fb8 RSI: ffff88885fd973c8 RDI: ffff88885fd973c8
[530.800] RBP: ffff888292e410d0 R08: ffffffff82fd7fd0 R09: 00000000fffeffff
[530.816] R10: ffffffff82e57fd0 R11: ffffffff82e57d70 R12: 0000000000000000
[530.832] R13: 0000000000001000 R14: 0000000000001000 R15: ffffc9002c2f76f0
[530.848] FS: 00007f38d64af000(0000) GS:ffff88885fd80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[530.866] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[530.880] CR2: 0000000000000002 CR3: 00000002b6770004 CR4: 00000000003706e0
[530.896] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[530.912] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[530.928] Call Trace:
[530.934] ? btrfs_printk+0x13b/0x18c
[530.943] ? btrfs_bio_counter_inc_blocked+0x3d/0x130
[530.955] btrfs_map_bio+0x75/0x330
[530.963] ? kmem_cache_alloc+0x12a/0x2d0
[530.973] ? btrfs_submit_metadata_bio+0x63/0x100
[530.984] btrfs_submit_metadata_bio+0xa4/0x100
[530.995] submit_extent_page+0x30f/0x360
[531.004] read_extent_buffer_pages+0x49e/0x6d0
[531.015] ? submit_extent_page+0x360/0x360
[531.025] btree_read_extent_buffer_pages+0x5f/0x150
[531.037] read_tree_block+0x37/0x60
[531.046] read_block_for_search+0x18b/0x410
[531.056] btrfs_search_old_slot+0x198/0x2f0
[531.066] resolve_indirect_ref+0xfe/0x6f0
[531.076] ? ulist_alloc+0x31/0x60
[531.084] ? kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x12e/0x2b0
[531.095] find_parent_nodes+0x720/0x1830
[531.105] ? ulist_alloc+0x10/0x60
[531.113] iterate_extent_inodes+0xea/0x370
[531.123] ? btrfs_previous_extent_item+0x8f/0x110
[531.134] ? btrfs_search_path_in_tree+0x240/0x240
[531.146] iterate_inodes_from_logical+0x98/0xd0
[531.157] ? btrfs_search_path_in_tree+0x240/0x240
[531.168] btrfs_ioctl_logical_to_ino+0xd9/0x180
[531.179] btrfs_ioctl+0xe2/0x2eb0
This occurs when logical inode resolution takes a tree mod log sequence
number, and then while backref walking hits a rewind on a busy node
which has the following sequence of tree mod log operations (numbers
filled in from a specific example, but they are somewhat arbitrary)
REMOVE_WHILE_FREEING slot 532
REMOVE_WHILE_FREEING slot 531
REMOVE_WHILE_FREEING slot 530
...
REMOVE_WHILE_FREEING slot 0
REMOVE slot 455
REMOVE slot 454
REMOVE slot 453
...
REMOVE slot 0
ADD slot 455
ADD slot 454
ADD slot 453
...
ADD slot 0
MOVE src slot 0 -> dst slot 456 nritems 533
REMOVE slot 455
REMOVE slot 454
REMOVE slot 453
...
REMOVE slot 0
When this sequence gets applied via btrfs_tree_mod_log_rewind, it
allocates a fresh rewind eb, and first inserts the correct key info for
the 533 elements, then overwrites the first 456 of them, then decrements
the count by 456 via the add ops, then rewinds the move by doing a
memmove from 456:988->0:532. We have never written anything past 532,
---truncated---
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
qed: Don't collect too many protection override GRC elements
In the protection override dump path, the firmware can return far too
many GRC elements, resulting in attempting to write past the end of the
previously-kmalloc'ed dump buffer.
This will result in a kernel panic with reason:
BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ADDRESS
where "ADDRESS" is just past the end of the protection override dump
buffer. The start address of the buffer is:
p_hwfn->cdev->dbg_features[DBG_FEATURE_PROTECTION_OVERRIDE].dump_buf
and the size of the buffer is buf_size in the same data structure.
The panic can be arrived at from either the qede Ethernet driver path:
[exception RIP: qed_grc_dump_addr_range+0x108]
qed_protection_override_dump at ffffffffc02662ed [qed]
qed_dbg_protection_override_dump at ffffffffc0267792 [qed]
qed_dbg_feature at ffffffffc026aa8f [qed]
qed_dbg_all_data at ffffffffc026b211 [qed]
qed_fw_fatal_reporter_dump at ffffffffc027298a [qed]
devlink_health_do_dump at ffffffff82497f61
devlink_health_report at ffffffff8249cf29
qed_report_fatal_error at ffffffffc0272baf [qed]
qede_sp_task at ffffffffc045ed32 [qede]
process_one_work at ffffffff81d19783
or the qedf storage driver path:
[exception RIP: qed_grc_dump_addr_range+0x108]
qed_protection_override_dump at ffffffffc068b2ed [qed]
qed_dbg_protection_override_dump at ffffffffc068c792 [qed]
qed_dbg_feature at ffffffffc068fa8f [qed]
qed_dbg_all_data at ffffffffc0690211 [qed]
qed_fw_fatal_reporter_dump at ffffffffc069798a [qed]
devlink_health_do_dump at ffffffff8aa95e51
devlink_health_report at ffffffff8aa9ae19
qed_report_fatal_error at ffffffffc0697baf [qed]
qed_hw_err_notify at ffffffffc06d32d7 [qed]
qed_spq_post at ffffffffc06b1011 [qed]
qed_fcoe_destroy_conn at ffffffffc06b2e91 [qed]
qedf_cleanup_fcport at ffffffffc05e7597 [qedf]
qedf_rport_event_handler at ffffffffc05e7bf7 [qedf]
fc_rport_work at ffffffffc02da715 [libfc]
process_one_work at ffffffff8a319663
Resolve this by clamping the firmware's return value to the maximum
number of legal elements the firmware should return.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-04