Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 2.1.6 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: mac80211: fix mbss changed flags corruption on 32 bit systems
On 32-bit systems, the size of an unsigned long is 4 bytes,
while a u64 is 8 bytes. Therefore, when using
or_each_set_bit(bit, &bits, sizeof(changed) * BITS_PER_BYTE),
the code is incorrectly searching for a bit in a 32-bit
variable that is expected to be 64 bits in size,
leading to incorrect bit finding.
Solution: Ensure that the size of the bits variable is correctly
adjusted for each architecture.
Call Trace:
? show_regs+0x54/0x58
? __warn+0x6b/0xd4
? ieee80211_link_info_change_notify+0xcc/0xd4 [mac80211]
? report_bug+0x113/0x150
? exc_overflow+0x30/0x30
? handle_bug+0x27/0x44
? exc_invalid_op+0x18/0x50
? handle_exception+0xf6/0xf6
? exc_overflow+0x30/0x30
? ieee80211_link_info_change_notify+0xcc/0xd4 [mac80211]
? exc_overflow+0x30/0x30
? ieee80211_link_info_change_notify+0xcc/0xd4 [mac80211]
? ieee80211_mesh_work+0xff/0x260 [mac80211]
? cfg80211_wiphy_work+0x72/0x98 [cfg80211]
? process_one_work+0xf1/0x1fc
? worker_thread+0x2c0/0x3b4
? kthread+0xc7/0xf0
? mod_delayed_work_on+0x4c/0x4c
? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x14/0x14
? ret_from_fork+0x24/0x38
? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x14/0x14
? ret_from_fork_asm+0xf/0x14
? entry_INT80_32+0xf0/0xf0
[restore no-op path for no changes]
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-01-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ALSA: seq: oss: Fix races at processing SysEx messages
OSS sequencer handles the SysEx messages split in 6 bytes packets, and
ALSA sequencer OSS layer tries to combine those. It stores the data
in the internal buffer and this access is racy as of now, which may
lead to the out-of-bounds access.
As a temporary band-aid fix, introduce a mutex for serializing the
process of the SysEx message packets.
CVSS Score
6.3
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-01-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
virtio-net: fix overflow inside virtnet_rq_alloc
When the frag just got a page, then may lead to regression on VM.
Specially if the sysctl net.core.high_order_alloc_disable value is 1,
then the frag always get a page when do refill.
Which could see reliable crashes or scp failure (scp a file 100M in size
to VM).
The issue is that the virtnet_rq_dma takes up 16 bytes at the beginning
of a new frag. When the frag size is larger than PAGE_SIZE,
everything is fine. However, if the frag is only one page and the
total size of the buffer and virtnet_rq_dma is larger than one page, an
overflow may occur.
The commit f9dac92ba908 ("virtio_ring: enable premapped mode whatever
use_dma_api") introduced this problem. And we reverted some commits to
fix this in last linux version. Now we try to enable it and fix this
bug directly.
Here, when the frag size is not enough, we reduce the buffer len to fix
this problem.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-01-11
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
s390/cpum_sf: Handle CPU hotplug remove during sampling
CPU hotplug remove handling triggers the following function
call sequence:
CPUHP_AP_PERF_S390_SF_ONLINE --> s390_pmu_sf_offline_cpu()
...
CPUHP_AP_PERF_ONLINE --> perf_event_exit_cpu()
The s390 CPUMF sampling CPU hotplug handler invokes:
s390_pmu_sf_offline_cpu()
+--> cpusf_pmu_setup()
+--> setup_pmc_cpu()
+--> deallocate_buffers()
This function de-allocates all sampling data buffers (SDBs) allocated
for that CPU at event initialization. It also clears the
PMU_F_RESERVED bit. The CPU is gone and can not be sampled.
With the event still being active on the removed CPU, the CPU event
hotplug support in kernel performance subsystem triggers the
following function calls on the removed CPU:
perf_event_exit_cpu()
+--> perf_event_exit_cpu_context()
+--> __perf_event_exit_context()
+--> __perf_remove_from_context()
+--> event_sched_out()
+--> cpumsf_pmu_del()
+--> cpumsf_pmu_stop()
+--> hw_perf_event_update()
to stop and remove the event. During removal of the event, the
sampling device driver tries to read out the remaining samples from
the sample data buffers (SDBs). But they have already been freed
(and may have been re-assigned). This may lead to a use after free
situation in which case the samples are most likely invalid. In the
best case the memory has not been reassigned and still contains
valid data.
Remedy this situation and check if the CPU is still in reserved
state (bit PMU_F_RESERVED set). In this case the SDBs have not been
released an contain valid data. This is always the case when
the event is removed (and no CPU hotplug off occured).
If the PMU_F_RESERVED bit is not set, the SDB buffers are gone.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-01-11
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
jffs2: Prevent rtime decompress memory corruption
The rtime decompression routine does not fully check bounds during the
entirety of the decompression pass and can corrupt memory outside the
decompression buffer if the compressed data is corrupted. This adds the
required check to prevent this failure mode.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-01-11
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
block: RCU protect disk->conv_zones_bitmap
Ensure that a disk revalidation changing the conventional zones bitmap
of a disk does not cause invalid memory references when using the
disk_zone_is_conv() helper by RCU protecting the disk->conv_zones_bitmap
pointer.
disk_zone_is_conv() is modified to operate under the RCU read lock and
the function disk_set_conv_zones_bitmap() is added to update a disk
conv_zones_bitmap pointer using rcu_replace_pointer() with the disk
zone_wplugs_lock spinlock held.
disk_free_zone_resources() is modified to call
disk_update_zone_resources() with a NULL bitmap pointer to free the disk
conv_zones_bitmap. disk_set_conv_zones_bitmap() is also used in
disk_update_zone_resources() to set the new (revalidated) bitmap and
free the old one.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-01-11
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
PCI: imx6: Fix suspend/resume support on i.MX6QDL
The suspend/resume functionality is currently broken on the i.MX6QDL
platform, as documented in the NXP errata (ERR005723):
https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/errata/IMX6DQCE.pdf
This patch addresses the issue by sharing most of the suspend/resume
sequences used by other i.MX devices, while avoiding modifications to
critical registers that disrupt the PCIe functionality. It targets the
same problem as the following downstream commit:
https://github.com/nxp-imx/linux-imx/commit/4e92355e1f79d225ea842511fcfd42b343b32995
Unlike the downstream commit, this patch also resets the connected PCIe
device if possible. Without this reset, certain drivers, such as ath10k
or iwlwifi, will crash on resume. The device reset is also done by the
driver on other i.MX platforms, making this patch consistent with
existing practices.
Upon resuming, the kernel will hang and display an error. Here's an
example of the error encountered with the ath10k driver:
ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: Unable to change power state from D3hot to D0, device inaccessible
Unhandled fault: imprecise external abort (0x1406) at 0x0106f944
Without this patch, suspend/resume will fail on i.MX6QDL devices if a
PCIe device is connected.
[kwilczynski: commit log, added tag for stable releases]
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-01-11
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
s390/entry: Mark IRQ entries to fix stack depot warnings
The stack depot filters out everything outside of the top interrupt
context as an uninteresting or irrelevant part of the stack traces. This
helps with stack trace de-duplication, avoiding an explosion of saved
stack traces that share the same IRQ context code path but originate
from different randomly interrupted points, eventually exhausting the
stack depot.
Filtering uses in_irqentry_text() to identify functions within the
.irqentry.text and .softirqentry.text sections, which then become the
last stack trace entries being saved.
While __do_softirq() is placed into the .softirqentry.text section by
common code, populating .irqentry.text is architecture-specific.
Currently, the .irqentry.text section on s390 is empty, which prevents
stack depot filtering and de-duplication and could result in warnings
like:
Stack depot reached limit capacity
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 286113 at lib/stackdepot.c:252 depot_alloc_stack+0x39a/0x3c8
with PREEMPT and KASAN enabled.
Fix this by moving the IO/EXT interrupt handlers from .kprobes.text into
the .irqentry.text section and updating the kprobes blacklist to include
the .irqentry.text section.
This is done only for asynchronous interrupts and explicitly not for
program checks, which are synchronous and where the context beyond the
program check is important to preserve. Despite machine checks being
somewhat in between, they are extremely rare, and preserving context
when possible is also of value.
SVCs and Restart Interrupts are not relevant, one being always at the
boundary to user space and the other being a one-time thing.
IRQ entries filtering is also optionally used in ftrace function graph,
where the same logic applies.
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-01-11
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: megaraid_sas: Fix for a potential deadlock
This fixes a 'possible circular locking dependency detected' warning
CPU0 CPU1
---- ----
lock(&instance->reset_mutex);
lock(&shost->scan_mutex);
lock(&instance->reset_mutex);
lock(&shost->scan_mutex);
Fix this by temporarily releasing the reset_mutex.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-01-11
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/dp_mst: Ensure mst_primary pointer is valid in drm_dp_mst_handle_up_req()
While receiving an MST up request message from one thread in
drm_dp_mst_handle_up_req(), the MST topology could be removed from
another thread via drm_dp_mst_topology_mgr_set_mst(false), freeing
mst_primary and setting drm_dp_mst_topology_mgr::mst_primary to NULL.
This could lead to a NULL deref/use-after-free of mst_primary in
drm_dp_mst_handle_up_req().
Avoid the above by holding a reference for mst_primary in
drm_dp_mst_handle_up_req() while it's used.
v2: Fix kfreeing the request if getting an mst_primary reference fails.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-01-11