Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 4.16.6 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
rxrpc: Fix recvmsg() unconditional requeue
If rxrpc_recvmsg() fails because MSG_DONTWAIT was specified but the call at
the front of the recvmsg queue already has its mutex locked, it requeues
the call - whether or not the call is already queued. The call may be on
the queue because MSG_PEEK was also passed and so the call was not dequeued
or because the I/O thread requeued it.
The unconditional requeue may then corrupt the recvmsg queue, leading to
things like UAFs or refcount underruns.
Fix this by only requeuing the call if it isn't already on the queue - and
moving it to the front if it is already queued. If we don't queue it, we
have to put the ref we obtained by dequeuing it.
Also, MSG_PEEK doesn't dequeue the call so shouldn't call
rxrpc_notify_socket() for the call if we didn't use up all the data on the
queue, so fix that also.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-02-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
vsock/virtio: fix potential underflow in virtio_transport_get_credit()
The credit calculation in virtio_transport_get_credit() uses unsigned
arithmetic:
ret = vvs->peer_buf_alloc - (vvs->tx_cnt - vvs->peer_fwd_cnt);
If the peer shrinks its advertised buffer (peer_buf_alloc) while bytes
are in flight, the subtraction can underflow and produce a large
positive value, potentially allowing more data to be queued than the
peer can handle.
Reuse virtio_transport_has_space() which already handles this case and
add a comment to make it clear why we are doing that.
[Stefano: use virtio_transport_has_space() instead of duplicating the code]
[Stefano: tweak the commit message]
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-02-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
regmap: Fix race condition in hwspinlock irqsave routine
Previously, the address of the shared member '&map->spinlock_flags' was
passed directly to 'hwspin_lock_timeout_irqsave'. This creates a race
condition where multiple contexts contending for the lock could overwrite
the shared flags variable, potentially corrupting the state for the
current lock owner.
Fix this by using a local stack variable 'flags' to store the IRQ state
temporarily.
CVSS Score
4.7
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-02-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
crypto: authencesn - reject too-short AAD (assoclen<8) to match ESP/ESN spec
authencesn assumes an ESP/ESN-formatted AAD. When assoclen is shorter than
the minimum expected length, crypto_authenc_esn_decrypt() can advance past
the end of the destination scatterlist and trigger a NULL pointer dereference
in scatterwalk_map_and_copy(), leading to a kernel panic (DoS).
Add a minimum AAD length check to fail fast on invalid inputs.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-02-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
can: kvaser_usb: kvaser_usb_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 kvaser_usb_set_{,data_}bittiming() -> kvaser_usb_setup_rx_urbs(), the
URBs for USB-in transfers are allocated, added to the dev->rx_submitted
anchor and submitted. In the complete callback
kvaser_usb_read_bulk_callback(), the URBs are processed and resubmitted. In
kvaser_usb_remove_interfaces() the URBs are freed by calling
usb_kill_anchored_urbs(&dev->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
kvaser_usb_read_bulk_callback() to the dev->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:
net: usb: pegasus: fix memory leak in update_eth_regs_async()
When asynchronously writing to the device registers and if usb_submit_urb()
fail, the code fail to release allocated to this point resources.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-01-31
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
dmaengine: lpc18xx-dmamux: fix device leak on route allocation
Make sure to drop the reference taken when looking up the DMA mux
platform device during route allocation.
Note that holding a reference to a device does not prevent its driver
data from going away so there is no point in keeping the reference.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-01-31
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
dmaengine: bcm-sba-raid: fix device leak on probe
Make sure to drop the reference taken when looking up the mailbox device
during probe on probe failures and on driver unbind.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-01-31
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
dmaengine: at_hdmac: fix device leak on of_dma_xlate()
Make sure to drop the reference taken when looking up the DMA platform
device during of_dma_xlate() when releasing channel resources.
Note that commit 3832b78b3ec2 ("dmaengine: at_hdmac: add missing
put_device() call in at_dma_xlate()") fixed the leak in a couple of
error paths but the reference is still leaking on successful allocation.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-01-31
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: always detect conflicting inodes when logging inode refs
After rename exchanging (either with the rename exchange operation or
regular renames in multiple non-atomic steps) two inodes and at least
one of them is a directory, we can end up with a log tree that contains
only of the inodes and after a power failure that can result in an attempt
to delete the other inode when it should not because it was not deleted
before the power failure. In some case that delete attempt fails when
the target inode is a directory that contains a subvolume inside it, since
the log replay code is not prepared to deal with directory entries that
point to root items (only inode items).
1) We have directories "dir1" (inode A) and "dir2" (inode B) under the
same parent directory;
2) We have a file (inode C) under directory "dir1" (inode A);
3) We have a subvolume inside directory "dir2" (inode B);
4) All these inodes were persisted in a past transaction and we are
currently at transaction N;
5) We rename the file (inode C), so at btrfs_log_new_name() we update
inode C's last_unlink_trans to N;
6) We get a rename exchange for "dir1" (inode A) and "dir2" (inode B),
so after the exchange "dir1" is inode B and "dir2" is inode A.
During the rename exchange we call btrfs_log_new_name() for inodes
A and B, but because they are directories, we don't update their
last_unlink_trans to N;
7) An fsync against the file (inode C) is done, and because its inode
has a last_unlink_trans with a value of N we log its parent directory
(inode A) (through btrfs_log_all_parents(), called from
btrfs_log_inode_parent()).
8) So we end up with inode B not logged, which now has the old name
of inode A. At copy_inode_items_to_log(), when logging inode A, we
did not check if we had any conflicting inode to log because inode
A has a generation lower than the current transaction (created in
a past transaction);
9) After a power failure, when replaying the log tree, since we find that
inode A has a new name that conflicts with the name of inode B in the
fs tree, we attempt to delete inode B... this is wrong since that
directory was never deleted before the power failure, and because there
is a subvolume inside that directory, attempting to delete it will fail
since replay_dir_deletes() and btrfs_unlink_inode() are not prepared
to deal with dir items that point to roots instead of inodes.
When that happens the mount fails and we get a stack trace like the
following:
[87.2314] BTRFS info (device dm-0): start tree-log replay
[87.2318] BTRFS critical (device dm-0): failed to delete reference to subvol, root 5 inode 256 parent 259
[87.2332] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[87.2338] BTRFS: Transaction aborted (error -2)
[87.2346] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 638968 at fs/btrfs/inode.c:4345 __btrfs_unlink_inode+0x416/0x440 [btrfs]
[87.2368] Modules linked in: btrfs loop dm_thin_pool (...)
[87.2470] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 638968 Comm: mount Tainted: G W 6.18.0-rc7-btrfs-next-218+ #2 PREEMPT(full)
[87.2489] Tainted: [W]=WARN
[87.2494] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.2-0-gea1b7a073390-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
[87.2514] RIP: 0010:__btrfs_unlink_inode+0x416/0x440 [btrfs]
[87.2538] Code: c0 89 04 24 (...)
[87.2568] RSP: 0018:ffffc0e741f4b9b8 EFLAGS: 00010286
[87.2574] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff9d3ec8a6cf60 RCX: 0000000000000000
[87.2582] RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: ffffffff84ab45a1 RDI: 00000000ffffffff
[87.2591] RBP: ffff9d3ec8a6ef20 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffc0e741f4b840
[87.2599] R10: ffff9d45dc1fffa8 R11: 0000000000000003 R12: ffff9d3ee26d77e0
[87.2608] R13: ffffc0e741f4ba98 R14: ffff9d4458040800 R15: ffff9d44b6b7ca10
[87.2618] FS: 00007f7b9603a840(0000) GS:ffff9d4658982000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[87.
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CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-01-31