Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
powerpc/kexec: Enable SMT before waking offline CPUs
If SMT is disabled or a partial SMT state is enabled, when a new kernel
image is loaded for kexec, on reboot the following warning is observed:
kexec: Waking offline cpu 228.
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 9062 at arch/powerpc/kexec/core_64.c:223 kexec_prepare_cpus+0x1b0/0x1bc
[snip]
NIP kexec_prepare_cpus+0x1b0/0x1bc
LR kexec_prepare_cpus+0x1a0/0x1bc
Call Trace:
kexec_prepare_cpus+0x1a0/0x1bc (unreliable)
default_machine_kexec+0x160/0x19c
machine_kexec+0x80/0x88
kernel_kexec+0xd0/0x118
__do_sys_reboot+0x210/0x2c4
system_call_exception+0x124/0x320
system_call_vectored_common+0x15c/0x2ec
This occurs as add_cpu() fails due to cpu_bootable() returning false for
CPUs that fail the cpu_smt_thread_allowed() check or non primary
threads if SMT is disabled.
Fix the issue by enabling SMT and resetting the number of SMT threads to
the number of threads per core, before attempting to wake up all present
CPUs.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-01-14
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
SUNRPC: svcauth_gss: avoid NULL deref on zero length gss_token in gss_read_proxy_verf
A zero length gss_token results in pages == 0 and in_token->pages[0]
is NULL. The code unconditionally evaluates
page_address(in_token->pages[0]) for the initial memcpy, which can
dereference NULL even when the copy length is 0. Guard the first
memcpy so it only runs when length > 0.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-01-14
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
parisc: Do not reprogram affinitiy on ASP chip
The ASP chip is a very old variant of the GSP chip and is used e.g. in
HP 730 workstations. When trying to reprogram the affinity it will crash
with a HPMC as the relevant registers don't seem to be at the usual
location. Let's avoid the crash by checking the sversion. Also note,
that reprogramming isn't necessary either, as the HP730 is a just a
single-CPU machine.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-01-14
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
iommufd/selftest: Check for overflow in IOMMU_TEST_OP_ADD_RESERVED
syzkaller found it could overflow math in the test infrastructure and
cause a WARN_ON by corrupting the reserved interval tree. This only
effects test kernels with CONFIG_IOMMUFD_TEST.
Validate the user input length in the test ioctl.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-01-14
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm/slub: reset KASAN tag in defer_free() before accessing freed memory
When CONFIG_SLUB_TINY is enabled, kfree_nolock() calls kasan_slab_free()
before defer_free(). On ARM64 with MTE (Memory Tagging Extension),
kasan_slab_free() poisons the memory and changes the tag from the
original (e.g., 0xf3) to a poison tag (0xfe).
When defer_free() then tries to write to the freed object to build the
deferred free list via llist_add(), the pointer still has the old tag,
causing a tag mismatch and triggering a KASAN use-after-free report:
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in defer_free+0x3c/0xbc mm/slub.c:6537
Write at addr f3f000000854f020 by task kworker/u8:6/983
Pointer tag: [f3], memory tag: [fe]
Fix this by calling kasan_reset_tag() before accessing the freed memory.
This is safe because defer_free() is part of the allocator itself and is
expected to manipulate freed memory for bookkeeping purposes.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-01-14
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
hwmon: (w83791d) Convert macros to functions to avoid TOCTOU
The macro FAN_FROM_REG evaluates its arguments multiple times. When used
in lockless contexts involving shared driver data, this leads to
Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) race conditions, potentially
causing divide-by-zero errors.
Convert the macro to a static function. This guarantees that arguments
are evaluated only once (pass-by-value), preventing the race
conditions.
Additionally, in store_fan_div, move the calculation of the minimum
limit inside the update lock. This ensures that the read-modify-write
sequence operates on consistent data.
Adhere to the principle of minimal changes by only converting macros
that evaluate arguments multiple times and are used in lockless
contexts.
CVSS Score
4.7
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-01-14
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: hns3: add VLAN id validation before using
Currently, the VLAN id may be used without validation when
receive a VLAN configuration mailbox from VF. The length of
vlan_del_fail_bmap is BITS_TO_LONGS(VLAN_N_VID). It may cause
out-of-bounds memory access once the VLAN id is bigger than
or equal to VLAN_N_VID.
Therefore, VLAN id needs to be checked to ensure it is within
the range of VLAN_N_VID.
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-01-14
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
crypto: af_alg - zero initialize memory allocated via sock_kmalloc
Several crypto user API contexts and requests allocated with
sock_kmalloc() were left uninitialized, relying on callers to
set fields explicitly. This resulted in the use of uninitialized
data in certain error paths or when new fields are added in the
future.
The ACVP patches also contain two user-space interface files:
algif_kpp.c and algif_akcipher.c. These too rely on proper
initialization of their context structures.
A particular issue has been observed with the newly added
'inflight' variable introduced in af_alg_ctx by commit:
67b164a871af ("crypto: af_alg - Disallow multiple in-flight AIO requests")
Because the context is not memset to zero after allocation,
the inflight variable has contained garbage values. As a result,
af_alg_alloc_areq() has incorrectly returned -EBUSY randomly when
the garbage value was interpreted as true:
https://github.com/gregkh/linux/blame/master/crypto/af_alg.c#L1209
The check directly tests ctx->inflight without explicitly
comparing against true/false. Since inflight is only ever set to
true or false later, an uninitialized value has triggered
-EBUSY failures. Zero-initializing memory allocated with
sock_kmalloc() ensures inflight and other fields start in a known
state, removing random issues caused by uninitialized data.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-01-14
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scs: fix a wrong parameter in __scs_magic
__scs_magic() needs a 'void *' variable, but a 'struct task_struct *' is
given. 'task_scs(tsk)' is the starting address of the task's shadow call
stack, and '__scs_magic(task_scs(tsk))' is the end address of the task's
shadow call stack. Here should be '__scs_magic(task_scs(tsk))'.
The user-visible effect of this bug is that when CONFIG_DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
is enabled, the shadow call stack usage checking function
(scs_check_usage) would scan an incorrect memory range. This could lead
1. **Inaccurate stack usage reporting**: The function would calculate
wrong usage statistics for the shadow call stack, potentially showing
incorrect value in kmsg.
2. **Potential kernel crash**: If the value of __scs_magic(tsk)is
greater than that of __scs_magic(task_scs(tsk)), the for loop may
access unmapped memory, potentially causing a kernel panic. However,
this scenario is unlikely because task_struct is allocated via the slab
allocator (which typically returns lower addresses), while the shadow
call stack returned by task_scs(tsk) is allocated via vmalloc(which
typically returns higher addresses).
However, since this is purely a debugging feature
(CONFIG_DEBUG_STACK_USAGE), normal production systems should be not
unaffected. The bug only impacts developers and testers who are actively
debugging stack usage with this configuration enabled.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-01-14
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/msm: adreno: fix deferencing ifpc_reglist when not declared
On plaforms with an a7xx GPU not supporting IFPC, the ifpc_reglist
if still deferenced in a7xx_patch_pwrup_reglist() which causes
a kernel crash:
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000008
...
pc : a6xx_hw_init+0x155c/0x1e4c [msm]
lr : a6xx_hw_init+0x9a8/0x1e4c [msm]
...
Call trace:
a6xx_hw_init+0x155c/0x1e4c [msm] (P)
msm_gpu_hw_init+0x58/0x88 [msm]
adreno_load_gpu+0x94/0x1fc [msm]
msm_open+0xe4/0xf4 [msm]
drm_file_alloc+0x1a0/0x2e4 [drm]
drm_client_init+0x7c/0x104 [drm]
drm_fbdev_client_setup+0x94/0xcf0 [drm_client_lib]
drm_client_setup+0xb4/0xd8 [drm_client_lib]
msm_drm_kms_post_init+0x2c/0x3c [msm]
msm_drm_init+0x1a4/0x228 [msm]
msm_drm_bind+0x30/0x3c [msm]
...
Check the validity of ifpc_reglist before deferencing the table
to setup the register values.
Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/688944/
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2026-01-14