Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 6.1.133 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cxl/mbox: validate payload size before accessing contents in cxl_payload_from_user_allowed()
cxl_payload_from_user_allowed() casts and dereferences the input
payload without first verifying its size. When a raw mailbox command
is sent with an undersized payload (ie: 1 byte for CXL_MBOX_OP_CLEAR_LOG,
which expects a 16-byte UUID), uuid_equal() reads past the allocated buffer,
triggering a KASAN splat:
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in memcmp+0x176/0x1d0 lib/string.c:683
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88810130f5c0 by task syz.1.62/2258
CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 2258 Comm: syz.1.62 Not tainted 6.19.0-dirty #3 PREEMPT(voluntary)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.17.0-0-gb52ca86e094d-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0xab/0xe0 lib/dump_stack.c:120
print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
print_report+0xce/0x650 mm/kasan/report.c:482
kasan_report+0xce/0x100 mm/kasan/report.c:595
memcmp+0x176/0x1d0 lib/string.c:683
uuid_equal include/linux/uuid.h:73 [inline]
cxl_payload_from_user_allowed drivers/cxl/core/mbox.c:345 [inline]
cxl_mbox_cmd_ctor drivers/cxl/core/mbox.c:368 [inline]
cxl_validate_cmd_from_user drivers/cxl/core/mbox.c:522 [inline]
cxl_send_cmd+0x9c0/0xb50 drivers/cxl/core/mbox.c:643
__cxl_memdev_ioctl drivers/cxl/core/memdev.c:698 [inline]
cxl_memdev_ioctl+0x14f/0x190 drivers/cxl/core/memdev.c:713
vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
__do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:597 [inline]
__se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:583 [inline]
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x18e/0x210 fs/ioctl.c:583
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xa8/0x330 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fdaf331ba79
Code: ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 a8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007fdaf1d77038 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fdaf3585fa0 RCX: 00007fdaf331ba79
RDX: 00002000000001c0 RSI: 00000000c030ce02 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007fdaf33749df R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fdaf3586038 R14: 00007fdaf3585fa0 R15: 00007ffced2af768
</TASK>
Add 'in_size' parameter to cxl_payload_from_user_allowed() and validate
the payload is large enough.
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-03-25
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/vmwgfx: Return the correct value in vmw_translate_ptr functions
Before the referenced fixes these functions used a lookup function that
returned a pointer. This was changed to another lookup function that
returned an error code with the pointer becoming an out parameter.
The error path when the lookup failed was not changed to reflect this
change and the code continued to return the PTR_ERR of the now
uninitialized pointer. This could cause the vmw_translate_ptr functions
to return success when they actually failed causing further uninitialized
and OOB accesses.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-03-25
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ALSA: usb-audio: Use correct version for UAC3 header validation
The entry of the validators table for UAC3 AC header descriptor is
defined with the wrong protocol version UAC_VERSION_2, while it should
have been UAC_VERSION_3. This results in the validator never matching
for actual UAC3 devices (protocol == UAC_VERSION_3), causing their
header descriptors to bypass validation entirely. A malicious USB
device presenting a truncated UAC3 header could exploit this to cause
out-of-bounds reads when the driver later accesses unvalidated
descriptor fields.
The bug was introduced in the same commit as the recently fixed UAC3
feature unit sub-type typo, and appears to be from the same copy-paste
error when the UAC3 section was created from the UAC2 section.
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-03-25
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bpf: Fix a UAF issue in bpf_trampoline_link_cgroup_shim
The root cause of this bug is that when 'bpf_link_put' reduces the
refcount of 'shim_link->link.link' to zero, the resource is considered
released but may still be referenced via 'tr->progs_hlist' in
'cgroup_shim_find'. The actual cleanup of 'tr->progs_hlist' in
'bpf_shim_tramp_link_release' is deferred. During this window, another
process can cause a use-after-free via 'bpf_trampoline_link_cgroup_shim'.
Based on Martin KaFai Lau's suggestions, I have created a simple patch.
To fix this:
Add an atomic non-zero check in 'bpf_trampoline_link_cgroup_shim'.
Only increment the refcount if it is not already zero.
Testing:
I verified the fix by adding a delay in
'bpf_shim_tramp_link_release' to make the bug easier to trigger:
static void bpf_shim_tramp_link_release(struct bpf_link *link)
{
/* ... */
if (!shim_link->trampoline)
return;
+ msleep(100);
WARN_ON_ONCE(bpf_trampoline_unlink_prog(&shim_link->link,
shim_link->trampoline, NULL));
bpf_trampoline_put(shim_link->trampoline);
}
Before the patch, running a PoC easily reproduced the crash(almost 100%)
with a call trace similar to KaiyanM's report.
After the patch, the bug no longer occurs even after millions of
iterations.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-03-25
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mptcp: pm: in-kernel: always mark signal+subflow endp as used
Syzkaller managed to find a combination of actions that was generating
this warning:
msk->pm.local_addr_used == 0
WARNING: net/mptcp/pm_kernel.c:1071 at __mark_subflow_endp_available net/mptcp/pm_kernel.c:1071 [inline], CPU#1: syz.2.17/961
WARNING: net/mptcp/pm_kernel.c:1071 at mptcp_nl_remove_subflow_and_signal_addr net/mptcp/pm_kernel.c:1103 [inline], CPU#1: syz.2.17/961
WARNING: net/mptcp/pm_kernel.c:1071 at mptcp_pm_nl_del_addr_doit+0x81d/0x8f0 net/mptcp/pm_kernel.c:1210, CPU#1: syz.2.17/961
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 961 Comm: syz.2.17 Not tainted 6.19.0-08368-gfafda3b4b06b #22 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: QEMU Ubuntu 25.10 PC v2 (i440FX + PIIX, + 10.1 machine, 1996), BIOS 1.17.0-debian-1.17.0-1build1 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:__mark_subflow_endp_available net/mptcp/pm_kernel.c:1071 [inline]
RIP: 0010:mptcp_nl_remove_subflow_and_signal_addr net/mptcp/pm_kernel.c:1103 [inline]
RIP: 0010:mptcp_pm_nl_del_addr_doit+0x81d/0x8f0 net/mptcp/pm_kernel.c:1210
Code: 89 c5 e8 46 30 6f fe e9 21 fd ff ff 49 83 ed 80 e8 38 30 6f fe 4c 89 ef be 03 00 00 00 e8 db 49 df fe eb ac e8 24 30 6f fe 90 <0f> 0b 90 e9 1d ff ff ff e8 16 30 6f fe eb 05 e8 0f 30 6f fe e8 9a
RSP: 0018:ffffc90001663880 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: ffffffff82de1a6c RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffff88800722b500
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffff8880158b22d0 R08: 0000000000010425 R09: ffffffffffffffff
R10: ffffffff82de18ba R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88800641a640
R13: ffff8880158b1880 R14: ffff88801ec3c900 R15: ffff88800641a650
FS: 00005555722c3500(0000) GS:ffff8880f909d000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f66346e0f60 CR3: 000000001607c000 CR4: 0000000000350ef0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0x117/0x180 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1115
genl_family_rcv_msg net/netlink/genetlink.c:1195 [inline]
genl_rcv_msg+0x3a8/0x3f0 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1210
netlink_rcv_skb+0x16d/0x240 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2550
genl_rcv+0x28/0x40 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1219
netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1318 [inline]
netlink_unicast+0x3e9/0x4c0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1344
netlink_sendmsg+0x4aa/0x5b0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1894
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:727 [inline]
__sock_sendmsg+0xc9/0xf0 net/socket.c:742
____sys_sendmsg+0x272/0x3b0 net/socket.c:2592
___sys_sendmsg+0x2de/0x320 net/socket.c:2646
__sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2678 [inline]
__do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2683 [inline]
__se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2681 [inline]
__x64_sys_sendmsg+0x110/0x1a0 net/socket.c:2681
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x143/0x440 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f66346f826d
Code: ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 f3 0f 1e fa 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 e8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007ffc83d8bdc8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f6634985fa0 RCX: 00007f66346f826d
RDX: 00000000040000b0 RSI: 0000200000000740 RDI: 0000000000000007
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007f6634985fa8
R13: 00007f6634985fac R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000001770
</TASK>
The actions that caused that seem to be:
- Set the MPTCP subflows limit to 0
- Create an MPTCP endpoint with both the 'signal' and 'subflow' flags
- Create a new MPTCP connection from a different address: an ADD_ADDR
linked to the MPTCP endpoint will be sent ('signal' flag), but no
subflows is initiated ('subflow' flag)
- Remove the MPTCP endpoint
---truncated---
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-03-25
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: mt76: Fix possible oob access in mt76_connac2_mac_write_txwi_80211()
Check frame length before accessing the mgmt fields in
mt76_connac2_mac_write_txwi_80211 in order to avoid a possible oob
access.
[fix check to also cover mgmt->u.action.u.addba_req.capab,
correct Fixes tag]
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-03-25
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fbdev: smscufx: properly copy ioctl memory to kernelspace
The UFX_IOCTL_REPORT_DAMAGE ioctl does not properly copy data from
userspace to kernelspace, and instead directly references the memory,
which can cause problems if invalid data is passed from userspace. Fix
this all up by correctly copying the memory before accessing it within
the kernel.
CVSS Score
7.3
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-03-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
platform/x86: classmate-laptop: Add missing NULL pointer checks
In a few places in the Classmate laptop driver, code using the accel
object may run before that object's address is stored in the driver
data of the input device using it.
For example, cmpc_accel_sensitivity_store_v4() is the "show" method
of cmpc_accel_sensitivity_attr_v4 which is added in cmpc_accel_add_v4(),
before calling dev_set_drvdata() for inputdev->dev. If the sysfs
attribute is accessed prematurely, the dev_get_drvdata(&inputdev->dev)
call in in cmpc_accel_sensitivity_store_v4() returns NULL which
leads to a NULL pointer dereference going forward.
Moreover, sysfs attributes using the input device are added before
initializing that device by cmpc_add_acpi_notify_device() and if one
of them is accessed before running that function, a NULL pointer
dereference will occur.
For example, cmpc_accel_sensitivity_attr_v4 is added before calling
cmpc_add_acpi_notify_device() and if it is read prematurely, the
dev_get_drvdata(&acpi->dev) call in cmpc_accel_sensitivity_show_v4()
returns NULL which leads to a NULL pointer dereference going forward.
Fix this by adding NULL pointer checks in all of the relevant places.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-03-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
romfs: check sb_set_blocksize() return value
romfs_fill_super() ignores the return value of sb_set_blocksize(), which
can fail if the requested block size is incompatible with the block
device's configuration.
This can be triggered by setting a loop device's block size larger than
PAGE_SIZE using ioctl(LOOP_SET_BLOCK_SIZE, 32768), then mounting a romfs
filesystem on that device.
When sb_set_blocksize(sb, ROMBSIZE) is called with ROMBSIZE=4096 but the
device has logical_block_size=32768, bdev_validate_blocksize() fails
because the requested size is smaller than the device's logical block
size. sb_set_blocksize() returns 0 (failure), but romfs ignores this and
continues mounting.
The superblock's block size remains at the device's logical block size
(32768). Later, when sb_bread() attempts I/O with this oversized block
size, it triggers a kernel BUG in folio_set_bh():
kernel BUG at fs/buffer.c:1582!
BUG_ON(size > PAGE_SIZE);
Fix by checking the return value of sb_set_blocksize() and failing the
mount with -EINVAL if it returns 0.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-03-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
f2fs: fix to avoid UAF in f2fs_write_end_io()
As syzbot reported an use-after-free issue in f2fs_write_end_io().
It is caused by below race condition:
loop device umount
- worker_thread
- loop_process_work
- do_req_filebacked
- lo_rw_aio
- lo_rw_aio_complete
- blk_mq_end_request
- blk_update_request
- f2fs_write_end_io
- dec_page_count
- folio_end_writeback
- kill_f2fs_super
- kill_block_super
- f2fs_put_super
: free(sbi)
: get_pages(, F2FS_WB_CP_DATA)
accessed sbi which is freed
In kill_f2fs_super(), we will drop all page caches of f2fs inodes before
call free(sbi), it guarantee that all folios should end its writeback, so
it should be safe to access sbi before last folio_end_writeback().
Let's relocate ckpt thread wakeup flow before folio_end_writeback() to
resolve this issue.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-03-04