Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 6.1.51 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: p54: prevent buffer-overflow in p54_rx_eeprom_readback()
Robert Morris reported:
|If a malicious USB device pretends to be an Intersil p54 wifi
|interface and generates an eeprom_readback message with a large
|eeprom->v1.len, p54_rx_eeprom_readback() will copy data from the
|message beyond the end of priv->eeprom.
|
|static void p54_rx_eeprom_readback(struct p54_common *priv,
| struct sk_buff *skb)
|{
| struct p54_hdr *hdr = (struct p54_hdr *) skb->data;
| struct p54_eeprom_lm86 *eeprom = (struct p54_eeprom_lm86 *) hdr->data;
|
| if (priv->fw_var >= 0x509) {
| memcpy(priv->eeprom, eeprom->v2.data,
| le16_to_cpu(eeprom->v2.len));
| } else {
| memcpy(priv->eeprom, eeprom->v1.data,
| le16_to_cpu(eeprom->v1.len));
| }
| [...]
The eeprom->v{1,2}.len is set by the driver in p54_download_eeprom().
The device is supposed to provide the same length back to the driver.
But yes, it's possible (like shown in the report) to alter the value
to something that causes a crash/panic due to overrun.
This patch addresses the issue by adding the size to the common device
context, so p54_rx_eeprom_readback no longer relies on possibly tampered
values... That said, it also checks if the "firmware" altered the value
and no longer copies them.
The one, small saving grace is: Before the driver tries to read the eeprom,
it needs to upload >a< firmware. the vendor firmware has a proprietary
license and as a reason, it is not present on most distributions by
default.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-07-10
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Input: gpio-keys - fix a sleep while atomic with PREEMPT_RT
When enabling PREEMPT_RT, the gpio_keys_irq_timer() callback runs in
hard irq context, but the input_event() takes a spin_lock, which isn't
allowed there as it is converted to a rt_spin_lock().
[ 4054.289999] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:48
[ 4054.290028] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, non_block: 0, pid: 0, name: swapper/0
...
[ 4054.290195] __might_resched+0x13c/0x1f4
[ 4054.290209] rt_spin_lock+0x54/0x11c
[ 4054.290219] input_event+0x48/0x80
[ 4054.290230] gpio_keys_irq_timer+0x4c/0x78
[ 4054.290243] __hrtimer_run_queues+0x1a4/0x438
[ 4054.290257] hrtimer_interrupt+0xe4/0x240
[ 4054.290269] arch_timer_handler_phys+0x2c/0x44
[ 4054.290283] handle_percpu_devid_irq+0x8c/0x14c
[ 4054.290297] handle_irq_desc+0x40/0x58
[ 4054.290307] generic_handle_domain_irq+0x1c/0x28
[ 4054.290316] gic_handle_irq+0x44/0xcc
Considering the gpio_keys_irq_isr() can run in any context, e.g. it can
be threaded, it seems there's no point in requesting the timer isr to
run in hard irq context.
Relax the hrtimer not to use the hard context.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-07-10
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ata: pata_via: Force PIO for ATAPI devices on VT6415/VT6330
The controller has a hardware bug that can hard hang the system when
doing ATAPI DMAs without any trace of what happened. Depending on the
device attached, it can also prevent the system from booting.
In this case, the system hangs when reading the ATIP from optical media
with cdrecord -vvv -atip on an _NEC DVD_RW ND-4571A 1-01 and an
Optiarc DVD RW AD-7200A 1.06 attached to an ASRock 990FX Extreme 4,
running at UDMA/33.
The issue can be reproduced by running the same command with a cygwin
build of cdrecord on WinXP, although it requires more attempts to cause
it. The hang in that case is also resolved by forcing PIO. It doesn't
appear that VIA has produced any drivers for that OS, thus no known
workaround exists.
HDDs attached to the controller do not suffer from any DMA issues.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-07-10
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
jbd2: fix data-race and null-ptr-deref in jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata()
Since handle->h_transaction may be a NULL pointer, so we should change it
to call is_handle_aborted(handle) first before dereferencing it.
And the following data-race was reported in my fuzzer:
==================================================================
BUG: KCSAN: data-race in jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata / jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata
write to 0xffff888011024104 of 4 bytes by task 10881 on cpu 1:
jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata+0x2a5/0x770 fs/jbd2/transaction.c:1556
__ext4_handle_dirty_metadata+0xe7/0x4b0 fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c:358
ext4_do_update_inode fs/ext4/inode.c:5220 [inline]
ext4_mark_iloc_dirty+0x32c/0xd50 fs/ext4/inode.c:5869
__ext4_mark_inode_dirty+0xe1/0x450 fs/ext4/inode.c:6074
ext4_dirty_inode+0x98/0xc0 fs/ext4/inode.c:6103
....
read to 0xffff888011024104 of 4 bytes by task 10880 on cpu 0:
jbd2_journal_dirty_metadata+0xf2/0x770 fs/jbd2/transaction.c:1512
__ext4_handle_dirty_metadata+0xe7/0x4b0 fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c:358
ext4_do_update_inode fs/ext4/inode.c:5220 [inline]
ext4_mark_iloc_dirty+0x32c/0xd50 fs/ext4/inode.c:5869
__ext4_mark_inode_dirty+0xe1/0x450 fs/ext4/inode.c:6074
ext4_dirty_inode+0x98/0xc0 fs/ext4/inode.c:6103
....
value changed: 0x00000000 -> 0x00000001
==================================================================
This issue is caused by missing data-race annotation for jh->b_modified.
Therefore, the missing annotation needs to be added.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-07-10
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
jffs2: check jffs2_prealloc_raw_node_refs() result in few other places
Fuzzing hit another invalid pointer dereference due to the lack of
checking whether jffs2_prealloc_raw_node_refs() completed successfully.
Subsequent logic implies that the node refs have been allocated.
Handle that. The code is ready for propagating the error upwards.
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000008-0x000000000000000f]
CPU: 1 PID: 5835 Comm: syz-executor145 Not tainted 5.10.234-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.12.0-1 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:jffs2_link_node_ref+0xac/0x690 fs/jffs2/nodelist.c:600
Call Trace:
jffs2_mark_erased_block fs/jffs2/erase.c:460 [inline]
jffs2_erase_pending_blocks+0x688/0x1860 fs/jffs2/erase.c:118
jffs2_garbage_collect_pass+0x638/0x1a00 fs/jffs2/gc.c:253
jffs2_reserve_space+0x3f4/0xad0 fs/jffs2/nodemgmt.c:167
jffs2_write_inode_range+0x246/0xb50 fs/jffs2/write.c:362
jffs2_write_end+0x712/0x1110 fs/jffs2/file.c:302
generic_perform_write+0x2c2/0x500 mm/filemap.c:3347
__generic_file_write_iter+0x252/0x610 mm/filemap.c:3465
generic_file_write_iter+0xdb/0x230 mm/filemap.c:3497
call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2039 [inline]
do_iter_readv_writev+0x46d/0x750 fs/read_write.c:740
do_iter_write+0x18c/0x710 fs/read_write.c:866
vfs_writev+0x1db/0x6a0 fs/read_write.c:939
do_pwritev fs/read_write.c:1036 [inline]
__do_sys_pwritev fs/read_write.c:1083 [inline]
__se_sys_pwritev fs/read_write.c:1078 [inline]
__x64_sys_pwritev+0x235/0x310 fs/read_write.c:1078
do_syscall_64+0x30/0x40 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x67/0xd1
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-07-10
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: ethernet: cortina: Use TOE/TSO on all TCP
It is desireable to push the hardware accelerator to also
process non-segmented TCP frames: we pass the skb->len
to the "TOE/TSO" offloader and it will handle them.
Without this quirk the driver becomes unstable and lock
up and and crash.
I do not know exactly why, but it is probably due to the
TOE (TCP offload engine) feature that is coupled with the
segmentation feature - it is not possible to turn one
part off and not the other, either both TOE and TSO are
active, or neither of them.
Not having the TOE part active seems detrimental, as if
that hardware feature is not really supposed to be turned
off.
The datasheet says:
"Based on packet parsing and TCP connection/NAT table
lookup results, the NetEngine puts the packets
belonging to the same TCP connection to the same queue
for the software to process. The NetEngine puts
incoming packets to the buffer or series of buffers
for a jumbo packet. With this hardware acceleration,
IP/TCP header parsing, checksum validation and
connection lookup are offloaded from the software
processing."
After numerous tests with the hardware locking up after
something between minutes and hours depending on load
using iperf3 I have concluded this is necessary to stabilize
the hardware.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-07-10
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: lpfc: Use memcpy() for BIOS version
The strlcat() with FORTIFY support is triggering a panic because it
thinks the target buffer will overflow although the correct target
buffer size is passed in.
Anyway, instead of memset() with 0 followed by a strlcat(), just use
memcpy() and ensure that the resulting buffer is NULL terminated.
BIOSVersion is only used for the lpfc_printf_log() which expects a
properly terminated string.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-07-10
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
f2fs: fix to bail out in get_new_segment()
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 579 at fs/f2fs/segment.c:2832 new_curseg+0x5e8/0x6dc
pc : new_curseg+0x5e8/0x6dc
Call trace:
new_curseg+0x5e8/0x6dc
f2fs_allocate_data_block+0xa54/0xe28
do_write_page+0x6c/0x194
f2fs_do_write_node_page+0x38/0x78
__write_node_page+0x248/0x6d4
f2fs_sync_node_pages+0x524/0x72c
f2fs_write_checkpoint+0x4bc/0x9b0
__checkpoint_and_complete_reqs+0x80/0x244
issue_checkpoint_thread+0x8c/0xec
kthread+0x114/0x1bc
ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
get_new_segment() detects inconsistent status in between free_segmap
and free_secmap, let's record such error into super block, and bail
out get_new_segment() instead of continue using the segment.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-07-10
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
x86/sgx: Prevent attempts to reclaim poisoned pages
TL;DR: SGX page reclaim touches the page to copy its contents to
secondary storage. SGX instructions do not gracefully handle machine
checks. Despite this, the existing SGX code will try to reclaim pages
that it _knows_ are poisoned. Avoid even trying to reclaim poisoned pages.
The longer story:
Pages used by an enclave only get epc_page->poison set in
arch_memory_failure() but they currently stay on sgx_active_page_list until
sgx_encl_release(), with the SGX_EPC_PAGE_RECLAIMER_TRACKED flag untouched.
epc_page->poison is not checked in the reclaimer logic meaning that, if other
conditions are met, an attempt will be made to reclaim an EPC page that was
poisoned. This is bad because 1. we don't want that page to end up added
to another enclave and 2. it is likely to cause one core to shut down
and the kernel to panic.
Specifically, reclaiming uses microcode operations including "EWB" which
accesses the EPC page contents to encrypt and write them out to non-SGX
memory. Those operations cannot handle MCEs in their accesses other than
by putting the executing core into a special shutdown state (affecting
both threads with HT.) The kernel will subsequently panic on the
remaining cores seeing the core didn't enter MCE handler(s) in time.
Call sgx_unmark_page_reclaimable() to remove the affected EPC page from
sgx_active_page_list on memory error to stop it being considered for
reclaiming.
Testing epc_page->poison in sgx_reclaim_pages() would also work but I assume
it's better to add code in the less likely paths.
The affected EPC page is not added to &node->sgx_poison_page_list until
later in sgx_encl_release()->sgx_free_epc_page() when it is EREMOVEd.
Membership on other lists doesn't change to avoid changing any of the
lists' semantics except for sgx_active_page_list. There's a "TBD" comment
in arch_memory_failure() about pre-emptive actions, the goal here is not
to address everything that it may imply.
This also doesn't completely close the time window when a memory error
notification will be fatal (for a not previously poisoned EPC page) --
the MCE can happen after sgx_reclaim_pages() has selected its candidates
or even *inside* a microcode operation (actually easy to trigger due to
the amount of time spent in them.)
The spinlock in sgx_unmark_page_reclaimable() is safe because
memory_failure() runs in process context and no spinlocks are held,
explicitly noted in a mm/memory-failure.c comment.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-07-10
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
smb: Log an error when close_all_cached_dirs fails
Under low-memory conditions, close_all_cached_dirs() can't move the
dentries to a separate list to dput() them once the locks are dropped.
This will result in a "Dentry still in use" error, so add an error
message that makes it clear this is what happened:
[ 495.281119] CIFS: VFS: \\otters.example.com\share Out of memory while dropping dentries
[ 495.281595] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 495.281887] BUG: Dentry ffff888115531138{i=78,n=/} still in use (2) [unmount of cifs cifs]
[ 495.282391] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 2329 at fs/dcache.c:1536 umount_check+0xc8/0xf0
Also, bail out of looping through all tcons as soon as a single
allocation fails, since we're already in trouble, and kmalloc() attempts
for subseqeuent tcons are likely to fail just like the first one did.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-07-10