Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 2.6.25.16 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/client: Fix memory leak in drm_client_modeset_probe
When a new mode is set to modeset->mode, the previous mode should be freed.
This fixes the following kmemleak report:
drm_mode_duplicate+0x45/0x220 [drm]
drm_client_modeset_probe+0x944/0xf50 [drm]
__drm_fb_helper_initial_config_and_unlock+0xb4/0x2c0 [drm_kms_helper]
drm_fbdev_client_hotplug+0x2bc/0x4d0 [drm_kms_helper]
drm_client_register+0x169/0x240 [drm]
ast_pci_probe+0x142/0x190 [ast]
local_pci_probe+0xdc/0x180
work_for_cpu_fn+0x4e/0xa0
process_one_work+0x8b7/0x1540
worker_thread+0x70a/0xed0
kthread+0x29f/0x340
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ALSA: hda: fix a possible null-pointer dereference due to data race in snd_hdac_regmap_sync()
The variable codec->regmap is often protected by the lock
codec->regmap_lock when is accessed. However, it is accessed without
holding the lock when is accessed in snd_hdac_regmap_sync():
if (codec->regmap)
In my opinion, this may be a harmful race, because if codec->regmap is
set to NULL right after the condition is checked, a null-pointer
dereference can occur in the called function regcache_sync():
map->lock(map->lock_arg); --> Line 360 in drivers/base/regmap/regcache.c
To fix this possible null-pointer dereference caused by data race, the
mutex_lock coverage is extended to protect the if statement as well as the
function call to regcache_sync().
[ Note: the lack of the regmap_lock itself is harmless for the current
codec driver implementations, as snd_hdac_regmap_sync() is only for
PM runtime resume that is prohibited during the codec probe.
But the change makes the whole code more consistent, so it's merged
as is -- tiwai ]
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ubifs: Free memory for tmpfile name
When opening a ubifs tmpfile on an encrypted directory, function
fscrypt_setup_filename allocates memory for the name that is to be
stored in the directory entry, but after the name has been copied to the
directory entry inode, the memory is not freed.
When running kmemleak on it we see that it is registered as a leak. The
report below is triggered by a simple program 'tmpfile' just opening a
tmpfile:
unreferenced object 0xffff88810178f380 (size 32):
comm "tmpfile", pid 509, jiffies 4294934744 (age 1524.742s)
backtrace:
__kmem_cache_alloc_node
__kmalloc
fscrypt_setup_filename
ubifs_tmpfile
vfs_tmpfile
path_openat
Free this memory after it has been copied to the inode.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: iwl3945: Add missing check for create_singlethread_workqueue
Add the check for the return value of the create_singlethread_workqueue
in order to avoid NULL pointer dereference.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
misc: vmw_balloon: fix memory leak with using debugfs_lookup()
When calling debugfs_lookup() the result must have dput() called on it,
otherwise the memory will leak over time. To make things simpler, just
call debugfs_lookup_and_remove() instead which handles all of the logic at
once.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ubi: ensure that VID header offset + VID header size <= alloc, size
Ensure that the VID header offset + VID header size does not exceed
the allocated area to avoid slab OOB.
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in crc32_body lib/crc32.c:111 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in crc32_le_generic lib/crc32.c:179 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in crc32_le_base+0x58c/0x626 lib/crc32.c:197
Read of size 4 at addr ffff88802bb36f00 by task syz-executor136/1555
CPU: 2 PID: 1555 Comm: syz-executor136 Tainted: G W
6.0.0-1868 #1
Hardware name: Red Hat KVM, BIOS 1.13.0-2.module+el8.3.0+7860+a7792d29
04/01/2014
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0x85/0xad lib/dump_stack.c:106
print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:317 [inline]
print_report.cold.13+0xb6/0x6bb mm/kasan/report.c:433
kasan_report+0xa7/0x11b mm/kasan/report.c:495
crc32_body lib/crc32.c:111 [inline]
crc32_le_generic lib/crc32.c:179 [inline]
crc32_le_base+0x58c/0x626 lib/crc32.c:197
ubi_io_write_vid_hdr+0x1b7/0x472 drivers/mtd/ubi/io.c:1067
create_vtbl+0x4d5/0x9c4 drivers/mtd/ubi/vtbl.c:317
create_empty_lvol drivers/mtd/ubi/vtbl.c:500 [inline]
ubi_read_volume_table+0x67b/0x288a drivers/mtd/ubi/vtbl.c:812
ubi_attach+0xf34/0x1603 drivers/mtd/ubi/attach.c:1601
ubi_attach_mtd_dev+0x6f3/0x185e drivers/mtd/ubi/build.c:965
ctrl_cdev_ioctl+0x2db/0x347 drivers/mtd/ubi/cdev.c:1043
vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
__do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:870 [inline]
__se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:856 [inline]
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x193/0x213 fs/ioctl.c:856
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x3e/0x86 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0x0
RIP: 0033:0x7f96d5cf753d
Code:
RSP: 002b:00007fffd72206f8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007f96d5cf753d
RDX: 0000000020000080 RSI: 0000000040186f40 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 0000000000400cd0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000400be0
R13: 00007fffd72207e0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
</TASK>
Allocated by task 1555:
kasan_save_stack+0x20/0x3d mm/kasan/common.c:38
kasan_set_track mm/kasan/common.c:45 [inline]
set_alloc_info mm/kasan/common.c:437 [inline]
____kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:516 [inline]
__kasan_kmalloc+0x88/0xa3 mm/kasan/common.c:525
kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:234 [inline]
__kmalloc+0x138/0x257 mm/slub.c:4429
kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:605 [inline]
ubi_alloc_vid_buf drivers/mtd/ubi/ubi.h:1093 [inline]
create_vtbl+0xcc/0x9c4 drivers/mtd/ubi/vtbl.c:295
create_empty_lvol drivers/mtd/ubi/vtbl.c:500 [inline]
ubi_read_volume_table+0x67b/0x288a drivers/mtd/ubi/vtbl.c:812
ubi_attach+0xf34/0x1603 drivers/mtd/ubi/attach.c:1601
ubi_attach_mtd_dev+0x6f3/0x185e drivers/mtd/ubi/build.c:965
ctrl_cdev_ioctl+0x2db/0x347 drivers/mtd/ubi/cdev.c:1043
vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
__do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:870 [inline]
__se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:856 [inline]
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x193/0x213 fs/ioctl.c:856
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x3e/0x86 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0x0
The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88802bb36e00
which belongs to the cache kmalloc-256 of size 256
The buggy address is located 0 bytes to the right of
256-byte region [ffff88802bb36e00, ffff88802bb36f00)
The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page:00000000ea4d1263 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000
index:0x0 pfn:0x2bb36
head:00000000ea4d1263 order:1 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0
flags: 0xfffffc0010200(slab|head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x1fffff)
raw: 000fffffc0010200 ffffea000066c300 dead000000000003 ffff888100042b40
raw: 0000000000000000 00000000001
---truncated---
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: mac80211: check S1G action frame size
Before checking the action code, check that it even
exists in the frame.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cacheinfo: Fix shared_cpu_map to handle shared caches at different levels
The cacheinfo sets up the shared_cpu_map by checking whether the caches
with the same index are shared between CPUs. However, this will trigger
slab-out-of-bounds access if the CPUs do not have the same cache hierarchy.
Another problem is the mismatched shared_cpu_map when the shared cache does
not have the same index between CPUs.
CPU0 I D L3
index 0 1 2 x
^ ^ ^ ^
index 0 1 2 3
CPU1 I D L2 L3
This patch checks each cache is shared with all caches on other CPUs.
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: pci: tw68: Fix null-ptr-deref bug in buf prepare and finish
When the driver calls tw68_risc_buffer() to prepare the buffer, the
function call dma_alloc_coherent may fail, resulting in a empty buffer
buf->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 tw68_risc_buffer()
and the value of buf->cpu before buffer free.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cifs: fix DFS traversal oops without CONFIG_CIFS_DFS_UPCALL
When compiled with CONFIG_CIFS_DFS_UPCALL disabled, cifs_dfs_d_automount
is NULL. cifs.ko logic for mapping CIFS_FATTR_DFS_REFERRAL attributes to
S_AUTOMOUNT and corresponding dentry flags is retained regardless of
CONFIG_CIFS_DFS_UPCALL, leading to a NULL pointer dereference in
VFS follow_automount() when traversing a DFS referral link:
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
...
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__traverse_mounts+0xb5/0x220
? cifs_revalidate_mapping+0x65/0xc0 [cifs]
step_into+0x195/0x610
? lookup_fast+0xe2/0xf0
path_lookupat+0x64/0x140
filename_lookup+0xc2/0x140
? __create_object+0x299/0x380
? kmem_cache_alloc+0x119/0x220
? user_path_at_empty+0x31/0x50
user_path_at_empty+0x31/0x50
__x64_sys_chdir+0x2a/0xd0
? exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0xca/0x100
do_syscall_64+0x42/0x90
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc
This fix adds an inline cifs_dfs_d_automount() {return -EREMOTE} handler
when CONFIG_CIFS_DFS_UPCALL is disabled. An alternative would be to
avoid flagging S_AUTOMOUNT, etc. without CONFIG_CIFS_DFS_UPCALL. This
approach was chosen as it provides more control over the error path.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-15