Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 5.10.253 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ext4: validate p_idx bounds in ext4_ext_correct_indexes
ext4_ext_correct_indexes() walks up the extent tree correcting
index entries when the first extent in a leaf is modified. Before
accessing path[k].p_idx->ei_block, there is no validation that
p_idx falls within the valid range of index entries for that
level.
If the on-disk extent header contains a corrupted or crafted
eh_entries value, p_idx can point past the end of the allocated
buffer, causing a slab-out-of-bounds read.
Fix this by validating path[k].p_idx against EXT_LAST_INDEX() at
both access sites: before the while loop and inside it. Return
-EFSCORRUPTED if the index pointer is out of range, consistent
with how other bounds violations are handled in the ext4 extent
tree code.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-04-22
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
dmaengine: idxd: Fix memory leak when a wq is reset
idxd_wq_disable_cleanup() which is called from the reset path for a
workqueue, sets the wq type to NONE, which for other parts of the
driver mean that the wq is empty (all its resources were released).
Only set the wq type to NONE after its resources are released.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-04-22
CVE-2026-31431
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
crypto: algif_aead - Revert to operating out-of-place
This mostly reverts commit 72548b093ee3 except for the copying of
the associated data.
There is no benefit in operating in-place in algif_aead since the
source and destination come from different mappings. Get rid of
all the complexity added for in-place operation and just copy the
AD directly.
Known exploited
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.963
Published
2026-04-22
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ACPI: EC: clean up handlers on probe failure in acpi_ec_setup()
When ec_install_handlers() returns -EPROBE_DEFER on reduced-hardware
platforms, it has already started the EC and installed the address
space handler with the struct acpi_ec pointer as handler context.
However, acpi_ec_setup() propagates the error without any cleanup.
The caller acpi_ec_add() then frees the struct acpi_ec for non-boot
instances, leaving a dangling handler context in ACPICA.
Any subsequent AML evaluation that accesses an EC OpRegion field
dispatches into acpi_ec_space_handler() with the freed pointer,
causing a use-after-free:
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in mutex_lock (kernel/locking/mutex.c:289)
Write of size 8 at addr ffff88800721de38 by task init/1
Call Trace:
<TASK>
mutex_lock (kernel/locking/mutex.c:289)
acpi_ec_space_handler (drivers/acpi/ec.c:1362)
acpi_ev_address_space_dispatch (drivers/acpi/acpica/evregion.c:293)
acpi_ex_access_region (drivers/acpi/acpica/exfldio.c:246)
acpi_ex_field_datum_io (drivers/acpi/acpica/exfldio.c:509)
acpi_ex_extract_from_field (drivers/acpi/acpica/exfldio.c:700)
acpi_ex_read_data_from_field (drivers/acpi/acpica/exfield.c:327)
acpi_ex_resolve_node_to_value (drivers/acpi/acpica/exresolv.c:392)
</TASK>
Allocated by task 1:
acpi_ec_alloc (drivers/acpi/ec.c:1424)
acpi_ec_add (drivers/acpi/ec.c:1692)
Freed by task 1:
kfree (mm/slub.c:6876)
acpi_ec_add (drivers/acpi/ec.c:1751)
The bug triggers on reduced-hardware EC platforms (ec->gpe < 0)
when the GPIO IRQ provider defers probing. Once the stale handler
exists, any unprivileged sysfs read that causes AML to touch an
EC OpRegion (battery, thermal, backlight) exercises the dangling
pointer.
Fix this by calling ec_remove_handlers() in the error path of
acpi_ec_setup() before clearing first_ec. ec_remove_handlers()
checks each EC_FLAGS_* bit before acting, so it is safe to call
regardless of how far ec_install_handlers() progressed:
-ENODEV (handler not installed): only calls acpi_ec_stop()
-EPROBE_DEFER (handler installed): removes handler, stops EC
CVSS Score
7.0
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-04-13
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: bonding: fix use-after-free in bond_xmit_broadcast()
bond_xmit_broadcast() reuses the original skb for the last slave
(determined by bond_is_last_slave()) and clones it for others.
Concurrent slave enslave/release can mutate the slave list during
RCU-protected iteration, changing which slave is "last" mid-loop.
This causes the original skb to be double-consumed (double-freed).
Replace the racy bond_is_last_slave() check with a simple index
comparison (i + 1 == slaves_count) against the pre-snapshot slave
count taken via READ_ONCE() before the loop. This preserves the
zero-copy optimization for the last slave while making the "last"
determination stable against concurrent list mutations.
The UAF can trigger the following crash:
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in skb_clone
Read of size 8 at addr ffff888100ef8d40 by task exploit/147
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 147 Comm: exploit Not tainted 7.0.0-rc3+ #4 PREEMPTLAZY
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl (lib/dump_stack.c:123)
print_report (mm/kasan/report.c:379 mm/kasan/report.c:482)
kasan_report (mm/kasan/report.c:597)
skb_clone (include/linux/skbuff.h:1724 include/linux/skbuff.h:1792 include/linux/skbuff.h:3396 net/core/skbuff.c:2108)
bond_xmit_broadcast (drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:5334)
bond_start_xmit (drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:5567 drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:5593)
dev_hard_start_xmit (include/linux/netdevice.h:5325 include/linux/netdevice.h:5334 net/core/dev.c:3871 net/core/dev.c:3887)
__dev_queue_xmit (include/linux/netdevice.h:3601 net/core/dev.c:4838)
ip6_finish_output2 (include/net/neighbour.h:540 include/net/neighbour.h:554 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:136)
ip6_finish_output (net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:208 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:219)
ip6_output (net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:250)
ip6_send_skb (net/ipv6/ip6_output.c:1985)
udp_v6_send_skb (net/ipv6/udp.c:1442)
udpv6_sendmsg (net/ipv6/udp.c:1733)
__sys_sendto (net/socket.c:730 net/socket.c:742 net/socket.c:2206)
__x64_sys_sendto (net/socket.c:2209)
do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94)
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:130)
</TASK>
Allocated by task 147:
Freed by task 147:
The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff888100ef8c80
which belongs to the cache skbuff_head_cache of size 224
The buggy address is located 192 bytes inside of
freed 224-byte region [ffff888100ef8c80, ffff888100ef8d60)
Memory state around the buggy address:
ffff888100ef8c00: fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
ffff888100ef8c80: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
>ffff888100ef8d00: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fc fc fc fc
^
ffff888100ef8d80: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
ffff888100ef8e00: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb
==================================================================
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-04-13
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bridge: mrp: reject zero test interval to avoid OOM panic
br_mrp_start_test() and br_mrp_start_in_test() accept the user-supplied
interval value from netlink without validation. When interval is 0,
usecs_to_jiffies(0) yields 0, causing the delayed work
(br_mrp_test_work_expired / br_mrp_in_test_work_expired) to reschedule
itself with zero delay. This creates a tight loop on system_percpu_wq
that allocates and transmits MRP test frames at maximum rate, exhausting
all system memory and causing a kernel panic via OOM deadlock.
The same zero-interval issue applies to br_mrp_start_in_test_parse()
for interconnect test frames.
Use NLA_POLICY_MIN(NLA_U32, 1) in the nla_policy tables for both
IFLA_BRIDGE_MRP_START_TEST_INTERVAL and
IFLA_BRIDGE_MRP_START_IN_TEST_INTERVAL, so zero is rejected at the
netlink attribute parsing layer before the value ever reaches the
workqueue scheduling code. This is consistent with how other bridge
subsystems (br_fdb, br_mst) enforce range constraints on netlink
attributes.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-04-13
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: nf_conntrack_expect: use expect->helper
Use expect->helper in ctnetlink and /proc to dump the helper name.
Using nfct_help() without holding a reference to the master conntrack
is unsafe.
Use exp->master->helper in ctnetlink path if userspace does not provide
an explicit helper when creating an expectation to retain the existing
behaviour. The ctnetlink expectation path holds the reference on the
master conntrack and nf_conntrack_expect lock and the nfnetlink glue
path refers to the master ct that is attached to the skb.
CVSS Score
9.8
EPSS Score
0.004
Published
2026-04-13
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
usb: gadget: f_mass_storage: Fix potential integer overflow in check_command_size_in_blocks()
The `check_command_size_in_blocks()` function calculates the data size
in bytes by left shifting `common->data_size_from_cmnd` by the block
size (`common->curlun->blkbits`). However, it does not validate whether
this shift operation will cause an integer overflow.
Initially, the block size is set up in `fsg_lun_open()` , and the
`common->data_size_from_cmnd` is set up in `do_scsi_command()`. During
initialization, there is no integer overflow check for the interaction
between two variables.
So if a malicious USB host sends a SCSI READ or WRITE command
requesting a large amount of data (`common->data_size_from_cmnd`), the
left shift operation can wrap around. This results in a truncated data
size, which can bypass boundary checks and potentially lead to memory
corruption or out-of-bounds accesses.
Fix this by using the check_shl_overflow() macro to safely perform the
shift and catch any overflows.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2026-04-10
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: conntrack: add missing netlink policy validations
Hyunwoo Kim reports out-of-bounds access in sctp and ctnetlink.
These attributes are used by the kernel without any validation.
Extend the netlink policies accordingly.
Quoting the reporter:
nlattr_to_sctp() assigns the user-supplied CTA_PROTOINFO_SCTP_STATE
value directly to ct->proto.sctp.state without checking that it is
within the valid range. [..]
and: ... with exp->dir = 100, the access at
ct->master->tuplehash[100] reads 5600 bytes past the start of a
320-byte nf_conn object, causing a slab-out-of-bounds read confirmed by
UBSAN.
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2026-04-06
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: SCO: Fix use-after-free in sco_recv_frame() due to missing sock_hold
sco_recv_frame() reads conn->sk under sco_conn_lock() but immediately
releases the lock without holding a reference to the socket. A concurrent
close() can free the socket between the lock release and the subsequent
sk->sk_state access, resulting in a use-after-free.
Other functions in the same file (sco_sock_timeout(), sco_conn_del())
correctly use sco_sock_hold() to safely hold a reference under the lock.
Fix by using sco_sock_hold() to take a reference before releasing the
lock, and adding sock_put() on all exit paths.
CVSS Score
8.8
EPSS Score
0.003
Published
2026-04-06