Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 4.14.210 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: mdio: fix undefined behavior in bit shift for __mdiobus_register
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 drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c:586:27
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
__mdiobus_register+0x49d/0x4e0
fixed_mdio_bus_init+0xd8/0x12d
do_one_initcall+0x76/0x430
kernel_init_freeable+0x3b3/0x422
kernel_init+0x24/0x1e0
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
</TASK>
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
capabilities: fix potential memleak on error path from vfs_getxattr_alloc()
In cap_inode_getsecurity(), we will use vfs_getxattr_alloc() to
complete the memory allocation of tmpbuf, if we have completed
the memory allocation of tmpbuf, but failed to call handler->get(...),
there will be a memleak in below logic:
|-- ret = (int)vfs_getxattr_alloc(mnt_userns, ...)
| /* ^^^ alloc for tmpbuf */
|-- value = krealloc(*xattr_value, error + 1, flags)
| /* ^^^ alloc memory */
|-- error = handler->get(handler, ...)
| /* error! */
|-- *xattr_value = value
| /* xattr_value is &tmpbuf (memory leak!) */
So we will try to free(tmpbuf) after vfs_getxattr_alloc() fails to fix it.
[PM: subject line and backtrace tweaks]
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ftrace: Fix use-after-free for dynamic ftrace_ops
KASAN reported a use-after-free with ftrace ops [1]. It was found from
vmcore that perf had registered two ops with the same content
successively, both dynamic. After unregistering the second ops, a
use-after-free occurred.
In ftrace_shutdown(), when the second ops is unregistered, the
FTRACE_UPDATE_CALLS command is not set because there is another enabled
ops with the same content. Also, both ops are dynamic and the ftrace
callback function is ftrace_ops_list_func, so the
FTRACE_UPDATE_TRACE_FUNC command will not be set. Eventually the value
of 'command' will be 0 and ftrace_shutdown() will skip the rcu
synchronization.
However, ftrace may be activated. When the ops is released, another CPU
may be accessing the ops. Add the missing synchronization to fix this
problem.
[1]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __ftrace_ops_list_func kernel/trace/ftrace.c:7020 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ftrace_ops_list_func+0x2b0/0x31c kernel/trace/ftrace.c:7049
Read of size 8 at addr ffff56551965bbc8 by task syz-executor.2/14468
CPU: 1 PID: 14468 Comm: syz-executor.2 Not tainted 5.10.0 #7
Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
Call trace:
dump_backtrace+0x0/0x40c arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c:132
show_stack+0x30/0x40 arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c:196
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:77 [inline]
dump_stack+0x1b4/0x248 lib/dump_stack.c:118
print_address_description.constprop.0+0x28/0x48c mm/kasan/report.c:387
__kasan_report mm/kasan/report.c:547 [inline]
kasan_report+0x118/0x210 mm/kasan/report.c:564
check_memory_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:187 [inline]
__asan_load8+0x98/0xc0 mm/kasan/generic.c:253
__ftrace_ops_list_func kernel/trace/ftrace.c:7020 [inline]
ftrace_ops_list_func+0x2b0/0x31c kernel/trace/ftrace.c:7049
ftrace_graph_call+0x0/0x4
__might_sleep+0x8/0x100 include/linux/perf_event.h:1170
__might_fault mm/memory.c:5183 [inline]
__might_fault+0x58/0x70 mm/memory.c:5171
do_strncpy_from_user lib/strncpy_from_user.c:41 [inline]
strncpy_from_user+0x1f4/0x4b0 lib/strncpy_from_user.c:139
getname_flags+0xb0/0x31c fs/namei.c:149
getname+0x2c/0x40 fs/namei.c:209
[...]
Allocated by task 14445:
kasan_save_stack+0x24/0x50 mm/kasan/common.c:48
kasan_set_track mm/kasan/common.c:56 [inline]
__kasan_kmalloc mm/kasan/common.c:479 [inline]
__kasan_kmalloc.constprop.0+0x110/0x13c mm/kasan/common.c:449
kasan_kmalloc+0xc/0x14 mm/kasan/common.c:493
kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x440/0x924 mm/slub.c:2950
kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:563 [inline]
kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:675 [inline]
perf_event_alloc.part.0+0xb4/0x1350 kernel/events/core.c:11230
perf_event_alloc kernel/events/core.c:11733 [inline]
__do_sys_perf_event_open kernel/events/core.c:11831 [inline]
__se_sys_perf_event_open+0x550/0x15f4 kernel/events/core.c:11723
__arm64_sys_perf_event_open+0x6c/0x80 kernel/events/core.c:11723
[...]
Freed by task 14445:
kasan_save_stack+0x24/0x50 mm/kasan/common.c:48
kasan_set_track+0x24/0x34 mm/kasan/common.c:56
kasan_set_free_info+0x20/0x40 mm/kasan/generic.c:358
__kasan_slab_free.part.0+0x11c/0x1b0 mm/kasan/common.c:437
__kasan_slab_free mm/kasan/common.c:445 [inline]
kasan_slab_free+0x2c/0x40 mm/kasan/common.c:446
slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:1569 [inline]
slab_free_freelist_hook mm/slub.c:1608 [inline]
slab_free mm/slub.c:3179 [inline]
kfree+0x12c/0xc10 mm/slub.c:4176
perf_event_alloc.part.0+0xa0c/0x1350 kernel/events/core.c:11434
perf_event_alloc kernel/events/core.c:11733 [inline]
__do_sys_perf_event_open kernel/events/core.c:11831 [inline]
__se_sys_perf_event_open+0x550/0x15f4 kernel/events/core.c:11723
[...]
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: fix tree mod log mishandling of reallocated nodes
We have been seeing the following panic in production
kernel BUG at fs/btrfs/tree-mod-log.c:677!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
RIP: 0010:tree_mod_log_rewind+0x1b4/0x200
RSP: 0000:ffffc9002c02f890 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: 0000000000000003 RBX: ffff8882b448c700 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000008000 RSI: 00000000000000a7 RDI: ffff88877d831c00
RBP: 0000000000000002 R08: 000000000000009f R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000100c40 R12: 0000000000000001
R13: ffff8886c26d6a00 R14: ffff88829f5424f8 R15: ffff88877d831a00
FS: 00007fee1d80c780(0000) GS:ffff8890400c0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fee1963a020 CR3: 0000000434f33002 CR4: 00000000007706e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
PKRU: 55555554
Call Trace:
btrfs_get_old_root+0x12b/0x420
btrfs_search_old_slot+0x64/0x2f0
? tree_mod_log_oldest_root+0x3d/0xf0
resolve_indirect_ref+0xfd/0x660
? ulist_alloc+0x31/0x60
? kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x114/0x2c0
find_parent_nodes+0x97a/0x17e0
? ulist_alloc+0x30/0x60
btrfs_find_all_roots_safe+0x97/0x150
iterate_extent_inodes+0x154/0x370
? btrfs_search_path_in_tree+0x240/0x240
iterate_inodes_from_logical+0x98/0xd0
? btrfs_search_path_in_tree+0x240/0x240
btrfs_ioctl_logical_to_ino+0xd9/0x180
btrfs_ioctl+0xe2/0x2ec0
? __mod_memcg_lruvec_state+0x3d/0x280
? do_sys_openat2+0x6d/0x140
? kretprobe_dispatcher+0x47/0x70
? kretprobe_rethook_handler+0x38/0x50
? rethook_trampoline_handler+0x82/0x140
? arch_rethook_trampoline_callback+0x3b/0x50
? kmem_cache_free+0xfb/0x270
? do_sys_openat2+0xd5/0x140
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x71/0xb0
do_syscall_64+0x2d/0x40
Which is this code in tree_mod_log_rewind()
switch (tm->op) {
case BTRFS_MOD_LOG_KEY_REMOVE_WHILE_FREEING:
BUG_ON(tm->slot < n);
This occurs because we replay the nodes in order that they happened, and
when we do a REPLACE we will log a REMOVE_WHILE_FREEING for every slot,
starting at 0. 'n' here is the number of items in this block, which in
this case was 1, but we had 2 REMOVE_WHILE_FREEING operations.
The actual root cause of this was that we were replaying operations for
a block that shouldn't have been replayed. Consider the following
sequence of events
1. We have an already modified root, and we do a btrfs_get_tree_mod_seq().
2. We begin removing items from this root, triggering KEY_REPLACE for
it's child slots.
3. We remove one of the 2 children this root node points to, thus triggering
the root node promotion of the remaining child, and freeing this node.
4. We modify a new root, and re-allocate the above node to the root node of
this other root.
The tree mod log looks something like this
logical 0 op KEY_REPLACE (slot 1) seq 2
logical 0 op KEY_REMOVE (slot 1) seq 3
logical 0 op KEY_REMOVE_WHILE_FREEING (slot 0) seq 4
logical 4096 op LOG_ROOT_REPLACE (old logical 0) seq 5
logical 8192 op KEY_REMOVE_WHILE_FREEING (slot 1) seq 6
logical 8192 op KEY_REMOVE_WHILE_FREEING (slot 0) seq 7
logical 0 op LOG_ROOT_REPLACE (old logical 8192) seq 8
>From here the bug is triggered by the following steps
1. Call btrfs_get_old_root() on the new_root.
2. We call tree_mod_log_oldest_root(btrfs_root_node(new_root)), which is
currently logical 0.
3. tree_mod_log_oldest_root() calls tree_mod_log_search_oldest(), which
gives us the KEY_REPLACE seq 2, and since that's not a
LOG_ROOT_REPLACE we incorrectly believe that we don't have an old
root, because we expect that the most recent change should be a
LOG_ROOT_REPLACE.
4. Back in tree_mod_log_oldest_root() we don't have a LOG_ROOT_REPLACE,
so we don't set old_root, we simply use our e
---truncated---
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ACPI: APEI: Fix integer overflow in ghes_estatus_pool_init()
Change num_ghes from int to unsigned int, preventing an overflow
and causing subsequent vmalloc() to fail.
The overflow happens in ghes_estatus_pool_init() when calculating
len during execution of the statement below as both multiplication
operands here are signed int:
len += (num_ghes * GHES_ESOURCE_PREALLOC_MAX_SIZE);
The following call trace is observed because of this bug:
[ 9.317108] swapper/0: vmalloc error: size 18446744071562596352, exceeds total pages, mode:0xcc0(GFP_KERNEL), nodemask=(null),cpuset=/,mems_allowed=0-1
[ 9.317131] Call Trace:
[ 9.317134] <TASK>
[ 9.317137] dump_stack_lvl+0x49/0x5f
[ 9.317145] dump_stack+0x10/0x12
[ 9.317146] warn_alloc.cold+0x7b/0xdf
[ 9.317150] ? __device_attach+0x16a/0x1b0
[ 9.317155] __vmalloc_node_range+0x702/0x740
[ 9.317160] ? device_add+0x17f/0x920
[ 9.317164] ? dev_set_name+0x53/0x70
[ 9.317166] ? platform_device_add+0xf9/0x240
[ 9.317168] __vmalloc_node+0x49/0x50
[ 9.317170] ? ghes_estatus_pool_init+0x43/0xa0
[ 9.317176] vmalloc+0x21/0x30
[ 9.317177] ghes_estatus_pool_init+0x43/0xa0
[ 9.317179] acpi_hest_init+0x129/0x19c
[ 9.317185] acpi_init+0x434/0x4a4
[ 9.317188] ? acpi_sleep_proc_init+0x2a/0x2a
[ 9.317190] do_one_initcall+0x48/0x200
[ 9.317195] kernel_init_freeable+0x221/0x284
[ 9.317200] ? rest_init+0xe0/0xe0
[ 9.317204] kernel_init+0x1a/0x130
[ 9.317205] ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
[ 9.317208] </TASK>
[ rjw: Subject and changelog edits ]
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-05-01
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:
net: gso: fix panic on frag_list with mixed head alloc types
Since commit 3dcbdb134f32 ("net: gso: Fix skb_segment splat when
splitting gso_size mangled skb having linear-headed frag_list"), it is
allowed to change gso_size of a GRO packet. However, that commit assumes
that "checking the first list_skb member suffices; i.e if either of the
list_skb members have non head_frag head, then the first one has too".
It turns out this assumption does not hold. We've seen BUG_ON being hit
in skb_segment when skbs on the frag_list had differing head_frag with
the vmxnet3 driver. This happens because __netdev_alloc_skb and
__napi_alloc_skb can return a skb that is page backed or kmalloced
depending on the requested size. As the result, the last small skb in
the GRO packet can be kmalloced.
There are three different locations where this can be fixed:
(1) We could check head_frag in GRO and not allow GROing skbs with
different head_frag. However, that would lead to performance
regression on normal forward paths with unmodified gso_size, where
!head_frag in the last packet is not a problem.
(2) Set a flag in bpf_skb_net_grow and bpf_skb_net_shrink indicating
that NETIF_F_SG is undesirable. That would need to eat a bit in
sk_buff. Furthermore, that flag can be unset when all skbs on the
frag_list are page backed. To retain good performance,
bpf_skb_net_grow/shrink would have to walk the frag_list.
(3) Walk the frag_list in skb_segment when determining whether
NETIF_F_SG should be cleared. This of course slows things down.
This patch implements (3). To limit the performance impact in
skb_segment, the list is walked only for skbs with SKB_GSO_DODGY set
that have gso_size changed. Normal paths thus will not hit it.
We could check only the last skb but since we need to walk the whole
list anyway, let's stay on the safe side.
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().
------------[ cut here ]------------
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