Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 2.6.18.3 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
KVM: Don't null dereference ops->destroy
A KVM device cleanup happens in either of two callbacks:
1) destroy() which is called when the VM is being destroyed;
2) release() which is called when a device fd is closed.
Most KVM devices use 1) but Book3s's interrupt controller KVM devices
(XICS, XIVE, XIVE-native) use 2) as they need to close and reopen during
the machine execution. The error handling in kvm_ioctl_create_device()
assumes destroy() is always defined which leads to NULL dereference as
discovered by Syzkaller.
This adds a checks for destroy!=NULL and adds a missing release().
This is not changing kvm_destroy_devices() as devices with defined
release() should have been removed from the KVM devices list by then.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tcp: Fix data-races around sysctl_tcp_slow_start_after_idle.
While reading sysctl_tcp_slow_start_after_idle, it can be changed
concurrently. Thus, we need to add READ_ONCE() to its readers.
CVSS Score
4.7
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cifs: fix potential double free during failed mount
RHBZ: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2088799
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: lpfc: Move cfg_log_verbose check before calling lpfc_dmp_dbg()
In an attempt to log message 0126 with LOG_TRACE_EVENT, the following hard
lockup call trace hangs the system.
Call Trace:
_raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x32/0x40
lpfc_dmp_dbg.part.32+0x28/0x220 [lpfc]
lpfc_cmpl_els_fdisc+0x145/0x460 [lpfc]
lpfc_sli_cancel_jobs+0x92/0xd0 [lpfc]
lpfc_els_flush_cmd+0x43c/0x670 [lpfc]
lpfc_els_flush_all_cmd+0x37/0x60 [lpfc]
lpfc_sli4_async_event_proc+0x956/0x1720 [lpfc]
lpfc_do_work+0x1485/0x1d70 [lpfc]
kthread+0x112/0x130
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x40
Kernel panic - not syncing: Hard LOCKUP
The same CPU tries to claim the phba->port_list_lock twice.
Move the cfg_log_verbose checks as part of the lpfc_printf_vlog() and
lpfc_printf_log() macros before calling lpfc_dmp_dbg(). There is no need
to take the phba->port_list_lock within lpfc_dmp_dbg().
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ipw2x00: Fix potential NULL dereference in libipw_xmit()
crypt and crypt->ops could be null, so we need to checking null
before dereference
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
x86/kexec: fix memory leak of elf header buffer
This is reported by kmemleak detector:
unreferenced object 0xffffc900002a9000 (size 4096):
comm "kexec", pid 14950, jiffies 4295110793 (age 373.951s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
7f 45 4c 46 02 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 .ELF............
04 00 3e 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ..>.............
backtrace:
[<0000000016a8ef9f>] __vmalloc_node_range+0x101/0x170
[<000000002b66b6c0>] __vmalloc_node+0xb4/0x160
[<00000000ad40107d>] crash_prepare_elf64_headers+0x8e/0xcd0
[<0000000019afff23>] crash_load_segments+0x260/0x470
[<0000000019ebe95c>] bzImage64_load+0x814/0xad0
[<0000000093e16b05>] arch_kexec_kernel_image_load+0x1be/0x2a0
[<000000009ef2fc88>] kimage_file_alloc_init+0x2ec/0x5a0
[<0000000038f5a97a>] __do_sys_kexec_file_load+0x28d/0x530
[<0000000087c19992>] do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90
[<0000000066e063a4>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
In crash_prepare_elf64_headers(), a buffer is allocated via vmalloc() to
store elf headers. While it's not freed back to system correctly when
kdump kernel is reloaded or unloaded. Then memory leak is caused. Fix it
by introducing x86 specific function arch_kimage_file_post_load_cleanup(),
and freeing the buffer there.
And also remove the incorrect elf header buffer freeing code. Before
calling arch specific kexec_file loading function, the image instance has
been initialized. So 'image->elf_headers' must be NULL. It doesn't make
sense to free the elf header buffer in the place.
Three different people have reported three bugs about the memory leak on
x86_64 inside Redhat.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
loop: implement ->free_disk
Ensure that the lo_device which is stored in the gendisk private
data is valid until the gendisk is freed. Currently the loop driver
uses a lot of effort to make sure a device is not freed when it is
still in use, but to to fix a potential deadlock this will be relaxed
a bit soon.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/virtio: fix NULL pointer dereference in virtio_gpu_conn_get_modes
drm_cvt_mode may return NULL and we should check it.
This bug is found by syzkaller:
FAULT_INJECTION stacktrace:
[ 168.567394] FAULT_INJECTION: forcing a failure.
name failslab, interval 1, probability 0, space 0, times 1
[ 168.567403] CPU: 1 PID: 6425 Comm: syz Kdump: loaded Not tainted 4.19.90-vhulk2201.1.0.h1035.kasan.eulerosv2r10.aarch64 #1
[ 168.567406] Hardware name: QEMU KVM Virtual Machine, BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
[ 168.567408] Call trace:
[ 168.567414] dump_backtrace+0x0/0x310
[ 168.567418] show_stack+0x28/0x38
[ 168.567423] dump_stack+0xec/0x15c
[ 168.567427] should_fail+0x3ac/0x3d0
[ 168.567437] __should_failslab+0xb8/0x120
[ 168.567441] should_failslab+0x28/0xc0
[ 168.567445] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x50/0x640
[ 168.567454] drm_mode_create+0x40/0x90
[ 168.567458] drm_cvt_mode+0x48/0xc78
[ 168.567477] virtio_gpu_conn_get_modes+0xa8/0x140 [virtio_gpu]
[ 168.567485] drm_helper_probe_single_connector_modes+0x3a4/0xd80
[ 168.567492] drm_mode_getconnector+0x2e0/0xa70
[ 168.567496] drm_ioctl_kernel+0x11c/0x1d8
[ 168.567514] drm_ioctl+0x558/0x6d0
[ 168.567522] do_vfs_ioctl+0x160/0xf30
[ 168.567525] ksys_ioctl+0x98/0xd8
[ 168.567530] __arm64_sys_ioctl+0x50/0xc8
[ 168.567536] el0_svc_common+0xc8/0x320
[ 168.567540] el0_svc_handler+0xf8/0x160
[ 168.567544] el0_svc+0x10/0x218
KASAN stacktrace:
[ 168.567561] BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in virtio_gpu_conn_get_modes+0xb4/0x140 [virtio_gpu]
[ 168.567565] Read of size 4 at addr 0000000000000054 by task syz/6425
[ 168.567566]
[ 168.567571] CPU: 1 PID: 6425 Comm: syz Kdump: loaded Not tainted 4.19.90-vhulk2201.1.0.h1035.kasan.eulerosv2r10.aarch64 #1
[ 168.567573] Hardware name: QEMU KVM Virtual Machine, BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
[ 168.567575] Call trace:
[ 168.567578] dump_backtrace+0x0/0x310
[ 168.567582] show_stack+0x28/0x38
[ 168.567586] dump_stack+0xec/0x15c
[ 168.567591] kasan_report+0x244/0x2f0
[ 168.567594] __asan_load4+0x58/0xb0
[ 168.567607] virtio_gpu_conn_get_modes+0xb4/0x140 [virtio_gpu]
[ 168.567612] drm_helper_probe_single_connector_modes+0x3a4/0xd80
[ 168.567617] drm_mode_getconnector+0x2e0/0xa70
[ 168.567621] drm_ioctl_kernel+0x11c/0x1d8
[ 168.567624] drm_ioctl+0x558/0x6d0
[ 168.567628] do_vfs_ioctl+0x160/0xf30
[ 168.567632] ksys_ioctl+0x98/0xd8
[ 168.567636] __arm64_sys_ioctl+0x50/0xc8
[ 168.567641] el0_svc_common+0xc8/0x320
[ 168.567645] el0_svc_handler+0xf8/0x160
[ 168.567649] el0_svc+0x10/0x218
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: lpfc: Protect memory leak for NPIV ports sending PLOGI_RJT
There is a potential memory leak in lpfc_ignore_els_cmpl() and
lpfc_els_rsp_reject() that was allocated from NPIV PLOGI_RJT
(lpfc_rcv_plogi()'s login_mbox).
Check if cmdiocb->context_un.mbox was allocated in lpfc_ignore_els_cmpl(),
and then free it back to phba->mbox_mem_pool along with mbox->ctx_buf for
service parameters.
For lpfc_els_rsp_reject() failure, free both the ctx_buf for service
parameters and the login_mbox.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: lpfc: Fix null pointer dereference after failing to issue FLOGI and PLOGI
If lpfc_issue_els_flogi() fails and returns non-zero status, the node
reference count is decremented to trigger the release of the nodelist
structure. However, if there is a prior registration or dev-loss-evt work
pending, the node may be released prematurely. When dev-loss-evt
completes, the released node is referenced causing a use-after-free null
pointer dereference.
Similarly, when processing non-zero ELS PLOGI completion status in
lpfc_cmpl_els_plogi(), the ndlp flags are checked for a transport
registration before triggering node removal. If dev-loss-evt work is
pending, the node may be released prematurely and a subsequent call to
lpfc_dev_loss_tmo_handler() results in a use after free ndlp dereference.
Add test for pending dev-loss before decrementing the node reference count
for FLOGI, PLOGI, PRLI, and ADISC handling.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26