Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 4.12.10 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
KVM: VMX: Do _all_ initialization before exposing /dev/kvm to userspace
Call kvm_init() only after _all_ setup is complete, as kvm_init() exposes
/dev/kvm to userspace and thus allows userspace to create VMs (and call
other ioctls). E.g. KVM will encounter a NULL pointer when attempting to
add a vCPU to the per-CPU loaded_vmcss_on_cpu list if userspace is able to
create a VM before vmx_init() configures said list.
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000008
#PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP
CPU: 6 PID: 1143 Comm: stable Not tainted 6.0.0-rc7+ #988
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
RIP: 0010:vmx_vcpu_load_vmcs+0x68/0x230 [kvm_intel]
<TASK>
vmx_vcpu_load+0x16/0x60 [kvm_intel]
kvm_arch_vcpu_load+0x32/0x1f0 [kvm]
vcpu_load+0x2f/0x40 [kvm]
kvm_arch_vcpu_create+0x231/0x310 [kvm]
kvm_vm_ioctl+0x79f/0xe10 [kvm]
? handle_mm_fault+0xb1/0x220
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x80/0xb0
do_syscall_64+0x2b/0x50
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0
RIP: 0033:0x7f5a6b05743b
</TASK>
Modules linked in: vhost_net vhost vhost_iotlb tap kvm_intel(+) kvm irqbypass
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-05-02
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nilfs2: fix kernel-infoleak in nilfs_ioctl_wrap_copy()
The ioctl helper function nilfs_ioctl_wrap_copy(), which exchanges a
metadata array to/from user space, may copy uninitialized buffer regions
to user space memory for read-only ioctl commands NILFS_IOCTL_GET_SUINFO
and NILFS_IOCTL_GET_CPINFO.
This can occur when the element size of the user space metadata given by
the v_size member of the argument nilfs_argv structure is larger than the
size of the metadata element (nilfs_suinfo structure or nilfs_cpinfo
structure) on the file system side.
KMSAN-enabled kernels detect this issue as follows:
BUG: KMSAN: kernel-infoleak in instrument_copy_to_user
include/linux/instrumented.h:121 [inline]
BUG: KMSAN: kernel-infoleak in _copy_to_user+0xc0/0x100 lib/usercopy.c:33
instrument_copy_to_user include/linux/instrumented.h:121 [inline]
_copy_to_user+0xc0/0x100 lib/usercopy.c:33
copy_to_user include/linux/uaccess.h:169 [inline]
nilfs_ioctl_wrap_copy+0x6fa/0xc10 fs/nilfs2/ioctl.c:99
nilfs_ioctl_get_info fs/nilfs2/ioctl.c:1173 [inline]
nilfs_ioctl+0x2402/0x4450 fs/nilfs2/ioctl.c:1290
nilfs_compat_ioctl+0x1b8/0x200 fs/nilfs2/ioctl.c:1343
__do_compat_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:968 [inline]
__se_compat_sys_ioctl+0x7dd/0x1000 fs/ioctl.c:910
__ia32_compat_sys_ioctl+0x93/0xd0 fs/ioctl.c:910
do_syscall_32_irqs_on arch/x86/entry/common.c:112 [inline]
__do_fast_syscall_32+0xa2/0x100 arch/x86/entry/common.c:178
do_fast_syscall_32+0x37/0x80 arch/x86/entry/common.c:203
do_SYSENTER_32+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/common.c:246
entry_SYSENTER_compat_after_hwframe+0x70/0x82
Uninit was created at:
__alloc_pages+0x9f6/0xe90 mm/page_alloc.c:5572
alloc_pages+0xab0/0xd80 mm/mempolicy.c:2287
__get_free_pages+0x34/0xc0 mm/page_alloc.c:5599
nilfs_ioctl_wrap_copy+0x223/0xc10 fs/nilfs2/ioctl.c:74
nilfs_ioctl_get_info fs/nilfs2/ioctl.c:1173 [inline]
nilfs_ioctl+0x2402/0x4450 fs/nilfs2/ioctl.c:1290
nilfs_compat_ioctl+0x1b8/0x200 fs/nilfs2/ioctl.c:1343
__do_compat_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:968 [inline]
__se_compat_sys_ioctl+0x7dd/0x1000 fs/ioctl.c:910
__ia32_compat_sys_ioctl+0x93/0xd0 fs/ioctl.c:910
do_syscall_32_irqs_on arch/x86/entry/common.c:112 [inline]
__do_fast_syscall_32+0xa2/0x100 arch/x86/entry/common.c:178
do_fast_syscall_32+0x37/0x80 arch/x86/entry/common.c:203
do_SYSENTER_32+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/common.c:246
entry_SYSENTER_compat_after_hwframe+0x70/0x82
Bytes 16-127 of 3968 are uninitialized
...
This eliminates the leak issue by initializing the page allocated as
buffer using get_zeroed_page().
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-05-02
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: lpfc: Check kzalloc() in lpfc_sli4_cgn_params_read()
If kzalloc() fails in lpfc_sli4_cgn_params_read(), then we rely on
lpfc_read_object()'s routine to NULL check pdata.
Currently, an early return error is thrown from lpfc_read_object() to
protect us from NULL ptr dereference, but the errno code is -ENODEV.
Change the errno code to a more appropriate -ENOMEM.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-05-02
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
codel: remove sch->q.qlen check before qdisc_tree_reduce_backlog()
After making all ->qlen_notify() callbacks idempotent, now it is safe to
remove the check of qlen!=0 from both fq_codel_dequeue() and
codel_qdisc_dequeue().
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-05-02
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nfc: fdp: Fix potential memory leak in fdp_nci_send()
fdp_nci_send() will call fdp_nci_i2c_write that will not free skb in
the function. As a result, when fdp_nci_i2c_write() finished, the skb
will memleak. fdp_nci_send() should free skb after fdp_nci_i2c_write()
finished.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
RDMA/core: Fix null-ptr-deref in ib_core_cleanup()
KASAN reported a null-ptr-deref error:
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000118-0x000000000000011f]
CPU: 1 PID: 379
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
RIP: 0010:destroy_workqueue+0x2f/0x740
RSP: 0018:ffff888016137df8 EFLAGS: 00000202
...
Call Trace:
ib_core_cleanup+0xa/0xa1 [ib_core]
__do_sys_delete_module.constprop.0+0x34f/0x5b0
do_syscall_64+0x3a/0x90
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
RIP: 0033:0x7fa1a0d221b7
...
It is because the fail of roce_gid_mgmt_init() is ignored:
ib_core_init()
roce_gid_mgmt_init()
gid_cache_wq = alloc_ordered_workqueue # fail
...
ib_core_cleanup()
roce_gid_mgmt_cleanup()
destroy_workqueue(gid_cache_wq)
# destroy an unallocated wq
Fix this by catching the fail of roce_gid_mgmt_init() in ib_core_init().
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: dsa: Fix possible memory leaks in dsa_loop_init()
kmemleak reported memory leaks in dsa_loop_init():
kmemleak: 12 new suspected memory leaks
unreferenced object 0xffff8880138ce000 (size 2048):
comm "modprobe", pid 390, jiffies 4295040478 (age 238.976s)
backtrace:
[<000000006a94f1d5>] kmalloc_trace+0x26/0x60
[<00000000a9c44622>] phy_device_create+0x5d/0x970
[<00000000d0ee2afc>] get_phy_device+0xf3/0x2b0
[<00000000dca0c71f>] __fixed_phy_register.part.0+0x92/0x4e0
[<000000008a834798>] fixed_phy_register+0x84/0xb0
[<0000000055223fcb>] dsa_loop_init+0xa9/0x116 [dsa_loop]
...
There are two reasons for memleak in dsa_loop_init().
First, fixed_phy_register() create and register phy_device:
fixed_phy_register()
get_phy_device()
phy_device_create() # freed by phy_device_free()
phy_device_register() # freed by phy_device_remove()
But fixed_phy_unregister() only calls phy_device_remove().
So the memory allocated in phy_device_create() is leaked.
Second, when mdio_driver_register() fail in dsa_loop_init(),
it just returns and there is no cleanup for phydevs.
Fix the problems by catching the error of mdio_driver_register()
in dsa_loop_init(), then calling both fixed_phy_unregister() and
phy_device_free() to release phydevs.
Also add a function for phydevs cleanup to avoid duplacate.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nfs4: Fix kmemleak when allocate slot failed
If one of the slot allocate failed, should cleanup all the other
allocated slots, otherwise, the allocated slots will leak:
unreferenced object 0xffff8881115aa100 (size 64):
comm ""mount.nfs"", pid 679, jiffies 4294744957 (age 115.037s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 cc 19 73 81 88 ff ff 00 a0 5a 11 81 88 ff ff ...s......Z.....
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace:
[<000000007a4c434a>] nfs4_find_or_create_slot+0x8e/0x130
[<000000005472a39c>] nfs4_realloc_slot_table+0x23f/0x270
[<00000000cd8ca0eb>] nfs40_init_client+0x4a/0x90
[<00000000128486db>] nfs4_init_client+0xce/0x270
[<000000008d2cacad>] nfs4_set_client+0x1a2/0x2b0
[<000000000e593b52>] nfs4_create_server+0x300/0x5f0
[<00000000e4425dd2>] nfs4_try_get_tree+0x65/0x110
[<00000000d3a6176f>] vfs_get_tree+0x41/0xf0
[<0000000016b5ad4c>] path_mount+0x9b3/0xdd0
[<00000000494cae71>] __x64_sys_mount+0x190/0x1d0
[<000000005d56bdec>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
[<00000000687c9ae4>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ipvs: fix WARNING in __ip_vs_cleanup_batch()
During the initialization of ip_vs_conn_net_init(), if file ip_vs_conn
or ip_vs_conn_sync fails to be created, the initialization is successful
by default. Therefore, the ip_vs_conn or ip_vs_conn_sync file doesn't
be found during the remove.
The following is the stack information:
name 'ip_vs_conn_sync'
WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 9 at fs/proc/generic.c:712
remove_proc_entry+0x389/0x460
Modules linked in:
Workqueue: netns cleanup_net
RIP: 0010:remove_proc_entry+0x389/0x460
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__ip_vs_cleanup_batch+0x7d/0x120
ops_exit_list+0x125/0x170
cleanup_net+0x4ea/0xb00
process_one_work+0x9bf/0x1710
worker_thread+0x665/0x1080
kthread+0x2e4/0x3a0
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
</TASK>
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: sched: Fix use after free in red_enqueue()
We can't use "skb" again after passing it to qdisc_enqueue(). This is
basically identical to commit 2f09707d0c97 ("sch_sfb: Also store skb
len before calling child enqueue").
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-05-01