Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 4.18.0 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ubi: ubi_wl_put_peb: Fix infinite loop when wear-leveling work failed
Following process will trigger an infinite loop in ubi_wl_put_peb():
ubifs_bgt ubi_bgt
ubifs_leb_unmap
ubi_leb_unmap
ubi_eba_unmap_leb
ubi_wl_put_peb wear_leveling_worker
e1 = rb_entry(rb_first(&ubi->used)
e2 = get_peb_for_wl(ubi)
ubi_io_read_vid_hdr // return err (flash fault)
out_error:
ubi->move_from = ubi->move_to = NULL
wl_entry_destroy(ubi, e1)
ubi->lookuptbl[e->pnum] = NULL
retry:
e = ubi->lookuptbl[pnum]; // return NULL
if (e == ubi->move_from) { // NULL == NULL gets true
goto retry; // infinite loop !!!
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PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM COMMAND
7676 root 20 0 0 0 0 R 100.0 0.0 ubifs_bgt0_0
Fix it by:
1) Letting ubi_wl_put_peb() returns directly if wearl leveling entry has
been removed from 'ubi->lookuptbl'.
2) Using 'ubi->wl_lock' protecting wl entry deletion to preventing an
use-after-free problem for wl entry in ubi_wl_put_peb().
Fetch a reproducer in [Link].
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
iommu: Fix error unwind in iommu_group_alloc()
If either iommu_group_grate_file() fails then the
iommu_group is leaked.
Destroy it on these error paths.
Found by kselftest/iommu/iommufd_fail_nth
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/amdgpu/gfx: disable gfx9 cp_ecc_error_irq only when enabling legacy gfx ras
gfx9 cp_ecc_error_irq is only enabled when legacy gfx ras is assert.
So in gfx_v9_0_hw_fini, interrupt disablement for cp_ecc_error_irq
should be executed under such condition, otherwise, an amdgpu_irq_put
calltrace will occur.
[ 7283.170322] RIP: 0010:amdgpu_irq_put+0x45/0x70 [amdgpu]
[ 7283.170964] RSP: 0018:ffff9a5fc3967d00 EFLAGS: 00010246
[ 7283.170967] RAX: ffff98d88afd3040 RBX: ffff98d89da20000 RCX: 0000000000000000
[ 7283.170969] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff98d89da2bef8 RDI: ffff98d89da20000
[ 7283.170971] RBP: ffff98d89da20000 R08: ffff98d89da2ca18 R09: 0000000000000006
[ 7283.170973] R10: ffffd5764243c008 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000001050
[ 7283.170975] R13: ffff98d89da38978 R14: ffffffff999ae15a R15: ffff98d880130105
[ 7283.170978] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff98d996f00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 7283.170981] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 7283.170983] CR2: 00000000f7a9d178 CR3: 00000001c42ea000 CR4: 00000000003506e0
[ 7283.170986] Call Trace:
[ 7283.170988] <TASK>
[ 7283.170989] gfx_v9_0_hw_fini+0x1c/0x6d0 [amdgpu]
[ 7283.171655] amdgpu_device_ip_suspend_phase2+0x101/0x1a0 [amdgpu]
[ 7283.172245] amdgpu_device_suspend+0x103/0x180 [amdgpu]
[ 7283.172823] amdgpu_pmops_freeze+0x21/0x60 [amdgpu]
[ 7283.173412] pci_pm_freeze+0x54/0xc0
[ 7283.173419] ? __pfx_pci_pm_freeze+0x10/0x10
[ 7283.173425] dpm_run_callback+0x98/0x200
[ 7283.173430] __device_suspend+0x164/0x5f0
v2: drop gfx11 as it's fixed in a different solution by retiring cp_ecc_irq funcs(Hawking)
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
iw_cxgb4: Fix potential NULL dereference in c4iw_fill_res_cm_id_entry()
This condition needs to match the previous "if (epcp->state == LISTEN) {"
exactly to avoid a NULL dereference of either "listen_ep" or "ep". The
problem is that "epcp" has been re-assigned so just testing
"if (epcp->state == LISTEN) {" a second time is not sufficient.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ubifs: Fix memory leak in alloc_wbufs()
kmemleak reported a sequence of memory leaks, and show them as following:
unreferenced object 0xffff8881575f8400 (size 1024):
comm "mount", pid 19625, jiffies 4297119604 (age 20.383s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace:
[<ffffffff8176cecd>] __kmalloc+0x4d/0x150
[<ffffffffa0406b2b>] ubifs_mount+0x307b/0x7170 [ubifs]
[<ffffffff819fa8fd>] legacy_get_tree+0xed/0x1d0
[<ffffffff81936f2d>] vfs_get_tree+0x7d/0x230
[<ffffffff819b2bd4>] path_mount+0xdd4/0x17b0
[<ffffffff819b37aa>] __x64_sys_mount+0x1fa/0x270
[<ffffffff83c14295>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
[<ffffffff83e0006a>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0
unreferenced object 0xffff8881798a6e00 (size 512):
comm "mount", pid 19677, jiffies 4297121912 (age 37.816s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
backtrace:
[<ffffffff8176cecd>] __kmalloc+0x4d/0x150
[<ffffffffa0418342>] ubifs_wbuf_init+0x52/0x480 [ubifs]
[<ffffffffa0406ca5>] ubifs_mount+0x31f5/0x7170 [ubifs]
[<ffffffff819fa8fd>] legacy_get_tree+0xed/0x1d0
[<ffffffff81936f2d>] vfs_get_tree+0x7d/0x230
[<ffffffff819b2bd4>] path_mount+0xdd4/0x17b0
[<ffffffff819b37aa>] __x64_sys_mount+0x1fa/0x270
[<ffffffff83c14295>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
[<ffffffff83e0006a>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0
The problem is that the ubifs_wbuf_init() returns an error in the
loop which in the alloc_wbufs(), then the wbuf->buf and wbuf->inodes
that were successfully alloced before are not freed.
Fix it by adding error hanging path in alloc_wbufs() which frees
the memory alloced before when ubifs_wbuf_init() returns an error.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
FS: JFS: Fix null-ptr-deref Read in txBegin
Syzkaller reported an issue where txBegin may be called
on a superblock in a read-only mounted filesystem which leads
to NULL pointer deref. This could be solved by checking if
the filesystem is read-only before calling txBegin, and returning
with appropiate error code.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: cx23885: Fix a null-ptr-deref bug in buffer_prepare() and buffer_finish()
When the driver calls cx23885_risc_buffer() to prepare the buffer, the
function call dma_alloc_coherent may fail, resulting in a empty buffer
risc->cpu. Later when we free the buffer or access the buffer, null ptr
deref is triggered.
This bug is similar to the following one:
https://git.linuxtv.org/media_stage.git/commit/?id=2b064d91440b33fba5b452f2d1b31f13ae911d71.
We believe the bug can be also dynamically triggered from user side.
Similarly, we fix this by checking the return value of cx23885_risc_buffer()
and the value of risc->cpu before buffer free.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: qla4xxx: Add length check when parsing nlattrs
There are three places that qla4xxx parses nlattrs:
- qla4xxx_set_chap_entry()
- qla4xxx_iface_set_param()
- qla4xxx_sysfs_ddb_set_param()
and each of them directly converts the nlattr to specific pointer of
structure without length checking. This could be dangerous as those
attributes are not validated and a malformed nlattr (e.g., length 0) could
result in an OOB read that leaks heap dirty data.
Add the nla_len check before accessing the nlattr data and return EINVAL if
the length check fails.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: qla2xxx: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference
Klocwork tool reported 'cur_dsd' may be dereferenced. Add fix to validate
pointer before dereferencing the pointer.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/radeon: free iio for atombios when driver shutdown
Fix below kmemleak when unload radeon driver:
unreferenced object 0xffff9f8608ede200 (size 512):
comm "systemd-udevd", pid 326, jiffies 4294682822 (age 716.338s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 c4 aa ec aa 14 ab 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace:
[<0000000062fadebe>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x2f1/0x500
[<00000000b6883cea>] atom_parse+0x117/0x230 [radeon]
[<00000000158c23fd>] radeon_atombios_init+0xab/0x170 [radeon]
[<00000000683f672e>] si_init+0x57/0x750 [radeon]
[<00000000566cc31f>] radeon_device_init+0x559/0x9c0 [radeon]
[<0000000046efabb3>] radeon_driver_load_kms+0xc1/0x1a0 [radeon]
[<00000000b5155064>] drm_dev_register+0xdd/0x1d0
[<0000000045fec835>] radeon_pci_probe+0xbd/0x100 [radeon]
[<00000000e69ecca3>] pci_device_probe+0xe1/0x160
[<0000000019484b76>] really_probe.part.0+0xc1/0x2c0
[<000000003f2649da>] __driver_probe_device+0x96/0x130
[<00000000231c5bb1>] driver_probe_device+0x24/0xf0
[<0000000000a42377>] __driver_attach+0x77/0x190
[<00000000d7574da6>] bus_for_each_dev+0x7f/0xd0
[<00000000633166d2>] driver_attach+0x1e/0x30
[<00000000313b05b8>] bus_add_driver+0x12c/0x1e0
iio was allocated in atom_index_iio() called by atom_parse(),
but it doesn't got released when the dirver is shutdown.
Fix this kmemleak by free it in radeon_atombios_fini().
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-01