Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 4.4 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mISDN: annotate data-race around dev->work
dev->work can re read locklessly in mISDN_read()
and mISDN_poll(). Add READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() annotations.
BUG: KCSAN: data-race in mISDN_ioctl / mISDN_read
write to 0xffff88812d848280 of 4 bytes by task 10864 on cpu 1:
misdn_add_timer drivers/isdn/mISDN/timerdev.c:175 [inline]
mISDN_ioctl+0x2fb/0x550 drivers/isdn/mISDN/timerdev.c:233
vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
__do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:597 [inline]
__se_sys_ioctl+0xce/0x140 fs/ioctl.c:583
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x43/0x50 fs/ioctl.c:583
x64_sys_call+0x14b0/0x3000 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:17
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xd8/0x2c0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
read to 0xffff88812d848280 of 4 bytes by task 10857 on cpu 0:
mISDN_read+0x1f2/0x470 drivers/isdn/mISDN/timerdev.c:112
do_loop_readv_writev fs/read_write.c:847 [inline]
vfs_readv+0x3fb/0x690 fs/read_write.c:1020
do_readv+0xe7/0x210 fs/read_write.c:1080
__do_sys_readv fs/read_write.c:1165 [inline]
__se_sys_readv fs/read_write.c:1162 [inline]
__x64_sys_readv+0x45/0x50 fs/read_write.c:1162
x64_sys_call+0x2831/0x3000 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:20
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xd8/0x2c0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
value changed: 0x00000000 -> 0x00000001
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-02-14
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
sctp: move SCTP_CMD_ASSOC_SHKEY right after SCTP_CMD_PEER_INIT
A null-ptr-deref was reported in the SCTP transmit path when SCTP-AUTH key
initialization fails:
==================================================================
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000018-0x000000000000001f]
CPU: 0 PID: 16 Comm: ksoftirqd/0 Tainted: G W 6.6.0 #2
RIP: 0010:sctp_packet_bundle_auth net/sctp/output.c:264 [inline]
RIP: 0010:sctp_packet_append_chunk+0xb36/0x1260 net/sctp/output.c:401
Call Trace:
sctp_packet_transmit_chunk+0x31/0x250 net/sctp/output.c:189
sctp_outq_flush_data+0xa29/0x26d0 net/sctp/outqueue.c:1111
sctp_outq_flush+0xc80/0x1240 net/sctp/outqueue.c:1217
sctp_cmd_interpreter.isra.0+0x19a5/0x62c0 net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c:1787
sctp_side_effects net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c:1198 [inline]
sctp_do_sm+0x1a3/0x670 net/sctp/sm_sideeffect.c:1169
sctp_assoc_bh_rcv+0x33e/0x640 net/sctp/associola.c:1052
sctp_inq_push+0x1dd/0x280 net/sctp/inqueue.c:88
sctp_rcv+0x11ae/0x3100 net/sctp/input.c:243
sctp6_rcv+0x3d/0x60 net/sctp/ipv6.c:1127
The issue is triggered when sctp_auth_asoc_init_active_key() fails in
sctp_sf_do_5_1C_ack() while processing an INIT_ACK. In this case, the
command sequence is currently:
- SCTP_CMD_PEER_INIT
- SCTP_CMD_TIMER_STOP (T1_INIT)
- SCTP_CMD_TIMER_START (T1_COOKIE)
- SCTP_CMD_NEW_STATE (COOKIE_ECHOED)
- SCTP_CMD_ASSOC_SHKEY
- SCTP_CMD_GEN_COOKIE_ECHO
If SCTP_CMD_ASSOC_SHKEY fails, asoc->shkey remains NULL, while
asoc->peer.auth_capable and asoc->peer.peer_chunks have already been set by
SCTP_CMD_PEER_INIT. This allows a DATA chunk with auth = 1 and shkey = NULL
to be queued by sctp_datamsg_from_user().
Since command interpretation stops on failure, no COOKIE_ECHO should been
sent via SCTP_CMD_GEN_COOKIE_ECHO. However, the T1_COOKIE timer has already
been started, and it may enqueue a COOKIE_ECHO into the outqueue later. As
a result, the DATA chunk can be transmitted together with the COOKIE_ECHO
in sctp_outq_flush_data(), leading to the observed issue.
Similar to the other places where it calls sctp_auth_asoc_init_active_key()
right after sctp_process_init(), this patch moves the SCTP_CMD_ASSOC_SHKEY
immediately after SCTP_CMD_PEER_INIT, before stopping T1_INIT and starting
T1_COOKIE. This ensures that if shared key generation fails, authenticated
DATA cannot be sent. It also allows the T1_INIT timer to retransmit INIT,
giving the client another chance to process INIT_ACK and retry key setup.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-02-14
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/sched: qfq: Use cl_is_active to determine whether class is active in qfq_rm_from_ag
This is more of a preventive patch to make the code more consistent and
to prevent possible exploits that employ child qlen manipulations on qfq.
use cl_is_active instead of relying on the child qdisc's qlen to determine
class activation.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-02-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
can: usb_8dev: usb_8dev_read_bulk_callback(): fix URB memory leak
Fix similar memory leak as in commit 7352e1d5932a ("can: gs_usb:
gs_usb_receive_bulk_callback(): fix URB memory leak").
In usb_8dev_open() -> usb_8dev_start(), the URBs for USB-in transfers are
allocated, added to the priv->rx_submitted anchor and submitted. In the
complete callback usb_8dev_read_bulk_callback(), the URBs are processed and
resubmitted. In usb_8dev_close() -> unlink_all_urbs() the URBs are freed by
calling usb_kill_anchored_urbs(&priv->rx_submitted).
However, this does not take into account that the USB framework unanchors
the URB before the complete function is called. This means that once an
in-URB has been completed, it is no longer anchored and is ultimately not
released in usb_kill_anchored_urbs().
Fix the memory leak by anchoring the URB in the
usb_8dev_read_bulk_callback() to the priv->rx_submitted anchor.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-02-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
gue: Fix skb memleak with inner IP protocol 0.
syzbot reported skb memleak below. [0]
The repro generated a GUE packet with its inner protocol 0.
gue_udp_recv() returns -guehdr->proto_ctype for "resubmit"
in ip_protocol_deliver_rcu(), but this only works with
non-zero protocol number.
Let's drop such packets.
Note that 0 is a valid number (IPv6 Hop-by-Hop Option).
I think it is not practical to encap HOPOPT in GUE, so once
someone starts to complain, we could pass down a resubmit
flag pointer to distinguish two zeros from the upper layer:
* no error
* resubmit HOPOPT
[0]
BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff888109695a00 (size 240):
comm "syz.0.17", pid 6088, jiffies 4294943096
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 40 c2 10 81 88 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 .@..............
backtrace (crc a84b336f):
kmemleak_alloc_recursive include/linux/kmemleak.h:44 [inline]
slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4958 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:5263 [inline]
kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x3b4/0x590 mm/slub.c:5270
__build_skb+0x23/0x60 net/core/skbuff.c:474
build_skb+0x20/0x190 net/core/skbuff.c:490
__tun_build_skb drivers/net/tun.c:1541 [inline]
tun_build_skb+0x4a1/0xa40 drivers/net/tun.c:1636
tun_get_user+0xc12/0x2030 drivers/net/tun.c:1770
tun_chr_write_iter+0x71/0x120 drivers/net/tun.c:1999
new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:593 [inline]
vfs_write+0x45d/0x710 fs/read_write.c:686
ksys_write+0xa7/0x170 fs/read_write.c:738
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xa4/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
CVSS Score
7.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-02-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netrom: fix double-free in nr_route_frame()
In nr_route_frame(), old_skb is immediately freed without checking if
nr_neigh->ax25 pointer is NULL. Therefore, if nr_neigh->ax25 is NULL,
the caller function will free old_skb again, causing a double-free bug.
Therefore, to prevent this, we need to modify it to check whether
nr_neigh->ax25 is NULL before freeing old_skb.
CVSS Score
8.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-02-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bonding: limit BOND_MODE_8023AD to Ethernet devices
BOND_MODE_8023AD makes sense for ARPHRD_ETHER only.
syzbot reported:
BUG: KASAN: global-out-of-bounds in __hw_addr_create net/core/dev_addr_lists.c:63 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: global-out-of-bounds in __hw_addr_add_ex+0x25d/0x760 net/core/dev_addr_lists.c:118
Read of size 16 at addr ffffffff8bf94040 by task syz.1.3580/19497
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 19497 Comm: syz.1.3580 Tainted: G L syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0xe8/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:120
print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
print_report+0xca/0x240 mm/kasan/report.c:482
kasan_report+0x118/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:595
check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:-1 [inline]
kasan_check_range+0x2b0/0x2c0 mm/kasan/generic.c:200
__asan_memcpy+0x29/0x70 mm/kasan/shadow.c:105
__hw_addr_create net/core/dev_addr_lists.c:63 [inline]
__hw_addr_add_ex+0x25d/0x760 net/core/dev_addr_lists.c:118
__dev_mc_add net/core/dev_addr_lists.c:868 [inline]
dev_mc_add+0xa1/0x120 net/core/dev_addr_lists.c:886
bond_enslave+0x2b8b/0x3ac0 drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:2180
do_set_master+0x533/0x6d0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:2963
do_setlink+0xcf0/0x41c0 net/core/rtnetlink.c:3165
rtnl_changelink net/core/rtnetlink.c:3776 [inline]
__rtnl_newlink net/core/rtnetlink.c:3935 [inline]
rtnl_newlink+0x161c/0x1c90 net/core/rtnetlink.c:4072
rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x7cf/0xb70 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6958
netlink_rcv_skb+0x208/0x470 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2550
netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1318 [inline]
netlink_unicast+0x82f/0x9e0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1344
netlink_sendmsg+0x805/0xb30 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1894
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:727 [inline]
__sock_sendmsg+0x21c/0x270 net/socket.c:742
____sys_sendmsg+0x505/0x820 net/socket.c:2592
___sys_sendmsg+0x21f/0x2a0 net/socket.c:2646
__sys_sendmsg+0x164/0x220 net/socket.c:2678
do_syscall_32_irqs_on arch/x86/entry/syscall_32.c:83 [inline]
__do_fast_syscall_32+0x1dc/0x560 arch/x86/entry/syscall_32.c:307
do_fast_syscall_32+0x34/0x80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_32.c:332
entry_SYSENTER_compat_after_hwframe+0x84/0x8e
</TASK>
The buggy address belongs to the variable:
lacpdu_mcast_addr+0x0/0x40
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-02-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
leds: led-class: Only Add LED to leds_list when it is fully ready
Before this change the LED was added to leds_list before led_init_core()
gets called adding it the list before led_classdev.set_brightness_work gets
initialized.
This leaves a window where led_trigger_register() of a LED's default
trigger will call led_trigger_set() which calls led_set_brightness()
which in turn will end up queueing the *uninitialized*
led_classdev.set_brightness_work.
This race gets hit by the lenovo-thinkpad-t14s EC driver which registers
2 LEDs with a default trigger provided by snd_ctl_led.ko in quick
succession. The first led_classdev_register() causes an async modprobe of
snd_ctl_led to run and that async modprobe manages to exactly hit
the window where the second LED is on the leds_list without led_init_core()
being called for it, resulting in:
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 11 PID: 5608 at kernel/workqueue.c:4234 __flush_work+0x344/0x390
Hardware name: LENOVO 21N2S01F0B/21N2S01F0B, BIOS N42ET93W (2.23 ) 09/01/2025
...
Call trace:
__flush_work+0x344/0x390 (P)
flush_work+0x2c/0x50
led_trigger_set+0x1c8/0x340
led_trigger_register+0x17c/0x1c0
led_trigger_register_simple+0x84/0xe8
snd_ctl_led_init+0x40/0xf88 [snd_ctl_led]
do_one_initcall+0x5c/0x318
do_init_module+0x9c/0x2b8
load_module+0x7e0/0x998
Close the race window by moving the adding of the LED to leds_list to
after the led_init_core() call.
CVSS Score
4.7
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-02-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fou: Don't allow 0 for FOU_ATTR_IPPROTO.
fou_udp_recv() has the same problem mentioned in the previous
patch.
If FOU_ATTR_IPPROTO is set to 0, skb is not freed by
fou_udp_recv() nor "resubmit"-ted in ip_protocol_deliver_rcu().
Let's forbid 0 for FOU_ATTR_IPPROTO.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-02-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
be2net: Fix NULL pointer dereference in be_cmd_get_mac_from_list
When the parameter pmac_id_valid argument of be_cmd_get_mac_from_list() is
set to false, the driver may request the PMAC_ID from the firmware of the
network card, and this function will store that PMAC_ID at the provided
address pmac_id. This is the contract of this function.
However, there is a location within the driver where both
pmac_id_valid == false and pmac_id == NULL are being passed. This could
result in dereferencing a NULL pointer.
To resolve this issue, it is necessary to pass the address of a stub
variable to the function.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-02-04