Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 4.14.36 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: meson: vdec: fix possible refcount leak in vdec_probe()
v4l2_device_unregister need to be called to put the refcount got by
v4l2_device_register when vdec_probe fails or vdec_remove is called.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
HID: hyperv: fix possible memory leak in mousevsc_probe()
If hid_add_device() returns error, it should call hid_destroy_device()
to free hid_dev which is allocated in hid_allocate_device().
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ext4: fix BUG_ON() when directory entry has invalid rec_len
The rec_len field in the directory entry has to be a multiple of 4. A
corrupted filesystem image can be used to hit a BUG() in
ext4_rec_len_to_disk(), called from make_indexed_dir().
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kernel BUG at fs/ext4/ext4.h:2413!
...
RIP: 0010:make_indexed_dir+0x53f/0x5f0
...
Call Trace:
<TASK>
? add_dirent_to_buf+0x1b2/0x200
ext4_add_entry+0x36e/0x480
ext4_add_nondir+0x2b/0xc0
ext4_create+0x163/0x200
path_openat+0x635/0xe90
do_filp_open+0xb4/0x160
? __create_object.isra.0+0x1de/0x3b0
? _raw_spin_unlock+0x12/0x30
do_sys_openat2+0x91/0x150
__x64_sys_open+0x6c/0xa0
do_syscall_64+0x3c/0x80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0
The fix simply adds a call to ext4_check_dir_entry() to validate the
directory entry, returning -EFSCORRUPTED if the entry is invalid.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ext4: fix warning in 'ext4_da_release_space'
Syzkaller report issue as follows:
EXT4-fs (loop0): Free/Dirty block details
EXT4-fs (loop0): free_blocks=0
EXT4-fs (loop0): dirty_blocks=0
EXT4-fs (loop0): Block reservation details
EXT4-fs (loop0): i_reserved_data_blocks=0
EXT4-fs warning (device loop0): ext4_da_release_space:1527: ext4_da_release_space: ino 18, to_free 1 with only 0 reserved data blocks
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 92 at fs/ext4/inode.c:1528 ext4_da_release_space+0x25e/0x370 fs/ext4/inode.c:1524
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 92 Comm: kworker/u4:4 Not tainted 6.0.0-syzkaller-09423-g493ffd6605b2 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/22/2022
Workqueue: writeback wb_workfn (flush-7:0)
RIP: 0010:ext4_da_release_space+0x25e/0x370 fs/ext4/inode.c:1528
RSP: 0018:ffffc900015f6c90 EFLAGS: 00010296
RAX: 42215896cd52ea00 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 42215896cd52ea00
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000080000001 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: 1ffff1100e907d96 R08: ffffffff816aa79d R09: fffff520002bece5
R10: fffff520002bece5 R11: 1ffff920002bece4 R12: ffff888021fd2000
R13: ffff88807483ecb0 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: ffff88807483e740
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b9a00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00005555569ba628 CR3: 000000000c88e000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
<TASK>
ext4_es_remove_extent+0x1ab/0x260 fs/ext4/extents_status.c:1461
mpage_release_unused_pages+0x24d/0xef0 fs/ext4/inode.c:1589
ext4_writepages+0x12eb/0x3be0 fs/ext4/inode.c:2852
do_writepages+0x3c3/0x680 mm/page-writeback.c:2469
__writeback_single_inode+0xd1/0x670 fs/fs-writeback.c:1587
writeback_sb_inodes+0xb3b/0x18f0 fs/fs-writeback.c:1870
wb_writeback+0x41f/0x7b0 fs/fs-writeback.c:2044
wb_do_writeback fs/fs-writeback.c:2187 [inline]
wb_workfn+0x3cb/0xef0 fs/fs-writeback.c:2227
process_one_work+0x877/0xdb0 kernel/workqueue.c:2289
worker_thread+0xb14/0x1330 kernel/workqueue.c:2436
kthread+0x266/0x300 kernel/kthread.c:376
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:306
</TASK>
Above issue may happens as follows:
ext4_da_write_begin
ext4_create_inline_data
ext4_clear_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_EXTENTS);
ext4_set_inode_flag(inode, EXT4_INODE_INLINE_DATA);
__ext4_ioctl
ext4_ext_migrate -> will lead to eh->eh_entries not zero, and set extent flag
ext4_da_write_begin
ext4_da_convert_inline_data_to_extent
ext4_da_write_inline_data_begin
ext4_da_map_blocks
ext4_insert_delayed_block
if (!ext4_es_scan_clu(inode, &ext4_es_is_delonly, lblk))
if (!ext4_es_scan_clu(inode, &ext4_es_is_mapped, lblk))
ext4_clu_mapped(inode, EXT4_B2C(sbi, lblk)); -> will return 1
allocated = true;
ext4_es_insert_delayed_block(inode, lblk, allocated);
ext4_writepages
mpage_map_and_submit_extent(handle, &mpd, &give_up_on_write); -> return -ENOSPC
mpage_release_unused_pages(&mpd, give_up_on_write); -> give_up_on_write == 1
ext4_es_remove_extent
ext4_da_release_space(inode, reserved);
if (unlikely(to_free > ei->i_reserved_data_blocks))
-> to_free == 1 but ei->i_reserved_data_blocks == 0
-> then trigger warning as above
To solve above issue, forbid inode do migrate which has inline data.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/amdkfd: Fix NULL pointer dereference in svm_migrate_to_ram()
./drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfd_migrate.c:985:58-62: ERROR: p is NULL but dereferenced.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ipv6: addrlabel: fix infoleak when sending struct ifaddrlblmsg to network
When copying a `struct ifaddrlblmsg` to the network, __ifal_reserved
remained uninitialized, resulting in a 1-byte infoleak:
BUG: KMSAN: kernel-network-infoleak in __netdev_start_xmit ./include/linux/netdevice.h:4841
__netdev_start_xmit ./include/linux/netdevice.h:4841
netdev_start_xmit ./include/linux/netdevice.h:4857
xmit_one net/core/dev.c:3590
dev_hard_start_xmit+0x1dc/0x800 net/core/dev.c:3606
__dev_queue_xmit+0x17e8/0x4350 net/core/dev.c:4256
dev_queue_xmit ./include/linux/netdevice.h:3009
__netlink_deliver_tap_skb net/netlink/af_netlink.c:307
__netlink_deliver_tap+0x728/0xad0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:325
netlink_deliver_tap net/netlink/af_netlink.c:338
__netlink_sendskb net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1263
netlink_sendskb+0x1d9/0x200 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1272
netlink_unicast+0x56d/0xf50 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1360
nlmsg_unicast ./include/net/netlink.h:1061
rtnl_unicast+0x5a/0x80 net/core/rtnetlink.c:758
ip6addrlbl_get+0xfad/0x10f0 net/ipv6/addrlabel.c:628
rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0xb33/0x1570 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6082
...
Uninit was created at:
slab_post_alloc_hook+0x118/0xb00 mm/slab.h:742
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3398
__kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x4f2/0x930 mm/slub.c:3437
__do_kmalloc_node mm/slab_common.c:954
__kmalloc_node_track_caller+0x117/0x3d0 mm/slab_common.c:975
kmalloc_reserve net/core/skbuff.c:437
__alloc_skb+0x27a/0xab0 net/core/skbuff.c:509
alloc_skb ./include/linux/skbuff.h:1267
nlmsg_new ./include/net/netlink.h:964
ip6addrlbl_get+0x490/0x10f0 net/ipv6/addrlabel.c:608
rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0xb33/0x1570 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6082
netlink_rcv_skb+0x299/0x550 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2540
rtnetlink_rcv+0x26/0x30 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6109
netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1319
netlink_unicast+0x9ab/0xf50 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1345
netlink_sendmsg+0xebc/0x10f0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1921
...
This patch ensures that the reserved field is always initialized.
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
capabilities: fix undefined behavior in bit shift for CAP_TO_MASK
Shifting signed 32-bit value by 31 bits is undefined, so changing
significant bit to unsigned. The UBSAN warning calltrace like below:
UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in security/commoncap.c:1252:2
left shift of 1 by 31 places cannot be represented in type 'int'
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x7d/0xa5
dump_stack+0x15/0x1b
ubsan_epilogue+0xe/0x4e
__ubsan_handle_shift_out_of_bounds+0x1e7/0x20c
cap_task_prctl+0x561/0x6f0
security_task_prctl+0x5a/0xb0
__x64_sys_prctl+0x61/0x8f0
do_syscall_64+0x58/0x80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
</TASK>
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
udf: Fix a slab-out-of-bounds write bug in udf_find_entry()
Syzbot reported a slab-out-of-bounds Write bug:
loop0: detected capacity change from 0 to 2048
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in udf_find_entry+0x8a5/0x14f0
fs/udf/namei.c:253
Write of size 105 at addr ffff8880123ff896 by task syz-executor323/3610
CPU: 0 PID: 3610 Comm: syz-executor323 Not tainted
6.1.0-rc2-syzkaller-00105-gb229b6ca5abb #0
Hardware name: Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS
Google 10/11/2022
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0x1b1/0x28e lib/dump_stack.c:106
print_address_description+0x74/0x340 mm/kasan/report.c:284
print_report+0x107/0x1f0 mm/kasan/report.c:395
kasan_report+0xcd/0x100 mm/kasan/report.c:495
kasan_check_range+0x2a7/0x2e0 mm/kasan/generic.c:189
memcpy+0x3c/0x60 mm/kasan/shadow.c:66
udf_find_entry+0x8a5/0x14f0 fs/udf/namei.c:253
udf_lookup+0xef/0x340 fs/udf/namei.c:309
lookup_open fs/namei.c:3391 [inline]
open_last_lookups fs/namei.c:3481 [inline]
path_openat+0x10e6/0x2df0 fs/namei.c:3710
do_filp_open+0x264/0x4f0 fs/namei.c:3740
do_sys_openat2+0x124/0x4e0 fs/open.c:1310
do_sys_open fs/open.c:1326 [inline]
__do_sys_creat fs/open.c:1402 [inline]
__se_sys_creat fs/open.c:1396 [inline]
__x64_sys_creat+0x11f/0x160 fs/open.c:1396
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x3d/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
RIP: 0033:0x7ffab0d164d9
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 c0 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007ffe1a7e6bb8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000055
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007ffab0d164d9
RDX: 00007ffab0d164d9 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000020000180
RBP: 00007ffab0cd5a10 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 00005555573552c0 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007ffab0cd5aa0
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
</TASK>
Allocated by task 3610:
kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:45 [inline]
kasan_set_track+0x3d/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:52
____kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:371 [inline]
__kasan_kmalloc+0x97/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:380
kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:576 [inline]
udf_find_entry+0x7b6/0x14f0 fs/udf/namei.c:243
udf_lookup+0xef/0x340 fs/udf/namei.c:309
lookup_open fs/namei.c:3391 [inline]
open_last_lookups fs/namei.c:3481 [inline]
path_openat+0x10e6/0x2df0 fs/namei.c:3710
do_filp_open+0x264/0x4f0 fs/namei.c:3740
do_sys_openat2+0x124/0x4e0 fs/open.c:1310
do_sys_open fs/open.c:1326 [inline]
__do_sys_creat fs/open.c:1402 [inline]
__se_sys_creat fs/open.c:1396 [inline]
__x64_sys_creat+0x11f/0x160 fs/open.c:1396
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x3d/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff8880123ff800
which belongs to the cache kmalloc-256 of size 256
The buggy address is located 150 bytes inside of
256-byte region [ffff8880123ff800, ffff8880123ff900)
The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page:ffffea000048ff80 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000
index:0x0 pfn:0x123fe
head:ffffea000048ff80 order:1 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0
flags: 0xfff00000010200(slab|head|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
raw: 00fff00000010200 ffffea00004b8500 dead000000000003 ffff888012041b40
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000080100010 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 0, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0x0(),
pid 1, tgid 1 (swapper/0), ts 1841222404, free_ts 0
create_dummy_stack mm/page_owner.c:
---truncated---
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nilfs2: fix deadlock in nilfs_count_free_blocks()
A semaphore deadlock can occur if nilfs_get_block() detects metadata
corruption while locating data blocks and a superblock writeback occurs at
the same time:
task 1 task 2
------ ------
* A file operation *
nilfs_truncate()
nilfs_get_block()
down_read(rwsem A) <--
nilfs_bmap_lookup_contig()
... generic_shutdown_super()
nilfs_put_super()
* Prepare to write superblock *
down_write(rwsem B) <--
nilfs_cleanup_super()
* Detect b-tree corruption * nilfs_set_log_cursor()
nilfs_bmap_convert_error() nilfs_count_free_blocks()
__nilfs_error() down_read(rwsem A) <--
nilfs_set_error()
down_write(rwsem B) <--
*** DEADLOCK ***
Here, nilfs_get_block() readlocks rwsem A (= NILFS_MDT(dat_inode)->mi_sem)
and then calls nilfs_bmap_lookup_contig(), but if it fails due to metadata
corruption, __nilfs_error() is called from nilfs_bmap_convert_error()
inside the lock section.
Since __nilfs_error() calls nilfs_set_error() unless the filesystem is
read-only and nilfs_set_error() attempts to writelock rwsem B (=
nilfs->ns_sem) to write back superblock exclusively, hierarchical lock
acquisition occurs in the order rwsem A -> rwsem B.
Now, if another task starts updating the superblock, it may writelock
rwsem B during the lock sequence above, and can deadlock trying to
readlock rwsem A in nilfs_count_free_blocks().
However, there is actually no need to take rwsem A in
nilfs_count_free_blocks() because it, within the lock section, only reads
a single integer data on a shared struct with
nilfs_sufile_get_ncleansegs(). This has been the case after commit
aa474a220180 ("nilfs2: add local variable to cache the number of clean
segments"), that is, even before this bug was introduced.
So, this resolves the deadlock problem by just not taking the semaphore in
nilfs_count_free_blocks().
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: macvlan: fix memory leaks of macvlan_common_newlink
kmemleak reports memory leaks in macvlan_common_newlink, as follows:
ip link add link eth0 name .. type macvlan mode source macaddr add
<MAC-ADDR>
kmemleak reports:
unreferenced object 0xffff8880109bb140 (size 64):
comm "ip", pid 284, jiffies 4294986150 (age 430.108s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 b8 aa 5a 12 80 88 ff ff ..........Z.....
80 1b fa 0d 80 88 ff ff 1e ff ac af c7 c1 6b 6b ..............kk
backtrace:
[<ffffffff813e06a7>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x1c7/0x300
[<ffffffff81b66025>] macvlan_hash_add_source+0x45/0xc0
[<ffffffff81b66a67>] macvlan_changelink_sources+0xd7/0x170
[<ffffffff81b6775c>] macvlan_common_newlink+0x38c/0x5a0
[<ffffffff81b6797e>] macvlan_newlink+0xe/0x20
[<ffffffff81d97f8f>] __rtnl_newlink+0x7af/0xa50
[<ffffffff81d98278>] rtnl_newlink+0x48/0x70
...
In the scenario where the macvlan mode is configured as 'source',
macvlan_changelink_sources() will be execured to reconfigure list of
remote source mac addresses, at the same time, if register_netdevice()
return an error, the resource generated by macvlan_changelink_sources()
is not cleaned up.
Using this patch, in the case of an error, it will execute
macvlan_flush_sources() to ensure that the resource is cleaned up.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-05-01