Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 3.16.61 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
exec: Force single empty string when argv is empty
Quoting[1] Ariadne Conill:
"In several other operating systems, it is a hard requirement that the
second argument to execve(2) be the name of a program, thus prohibiting
a scenario where argc < 1. POSIX 2017 also recommends this behaviour,
but it is not an explicit requirement[2]:
The argument arg0 should point to a filename string that is
associated with the process being started by one of the exec
functions.
...
Interestingly, Michael Kerrisk opened an issue about this in 2008[3],
but there was no consensus to support fixing this issue then.
Hopefully now that CVE-2021-4034 shows practical exploitative use[4]
of this bug in a shellcode, we can reconsider.
This issue is being tracked in the KSPP issue tracker[5]."
While the initial code searches[6][7] turned up what appeared to be
mostly corner case tests, trying to that just reject argv == NULL
(or an immediately terminated pointer list) quickly started tripping[8]
existing userspace programs.
The next best approach is forcing a single empty string into argv and
adjusting argc to match. The number of programs depending on argc == 0
seems a smaller set than those calling execve with a NULL argv.
Account for the additional stack space in bprm_stack_limits(). Inject an
empty string when argc == 0 (and set argc = 1). Warn about the case so
userspace has some notice about the change:
process './argc0' launched './argc0' with NULL argv: empty string added
Additionally WARN() and reject NULL argv usage for kernel threads.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220127000724.15106-1-ariadne@dereferenced.org/
[2] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/exec.html
[3] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8408
[4] https://www.qualys.com/2022/01/25/cve-2021-4034/pwnkit.txt
[5] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/176
[6] https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=execve%5C+*%5C%28%5B%5E%2C%5D%2B%2C+*NULL&literal=0
[7] https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=execlp%3F%5Cs*%5C%28%5B%5E%2C%5D%2B%2C%5Cs*NULL&literal=0
[8] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220131144352.GE16385@xsang-OptiPlex-9020/
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mmc: core: use sysfs_emit() instead of sprintf()
sprintf() (still used in the MMC core for the sysfs output) is vulnerable
to the buffer overflow. Use the new-fangled sysfs_emit() instead.
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with the SVACE static
analysis tool.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: usb: go7007: s2250-board: fix leak in probe()
Call i2c_unregister_device(audio) on this error path.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ASoC: atmel: Fix error handling in sam9x5_wm8731_driver_probe
The device_node pointer is returned by of_parse_phandle() with refcount
incremented. We should use of_node_put() on it when done.
This function only calls of_node_put() in the regular path.
And it will cause refcount leak in error path.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ASoC: mxs: Fix error handling in mxs_sgtl5000_probe
This function only calls of_node_put() in the regular path.
And it will cause refcount leak in error paths.
For example, when codec_np is NULL, saif_np[0] and saif_np[1]
are not NULL, it will cause leaks.
of_node_put() will check if the node pointer is NULL, so we can
call it directly to release the refcount of regular pointers.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ASoC: atmel: Add missing of_node_put() in at91sam9g20ek_audio_probe
This node pointer is returned by of_parse_phandle() with refcount
incremented in this function.
Calling of_node_put() to avoid the refcount leak.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: stk1160: If start stream fails, return buffers with VB2_BUF_STATE_QUEUED
If the callback 'start_streaming' fails, then all
queued buffers in the driver should be returned with
state 'VB2_BUF_STATE_QUEUED'. Currently, they are
returned with 'VB2_BUF_STATE_ERROR' which is wrong.
Fix this. This also fixes the warning:
[ 65.583633] WARNING: CPU: 5 PID: 593 at drivers/media/common/videobuf2/videobuf2-core.c:1612 vb2_start_streaming+0xd4/0x160 [videobuf2_common]
[ 65.585027] Modules linked in: snd_usb_audio snd_hwdep snd_usbmidi_lib snd_rawmidi snd_soc_hdmi_codec dw_hdmi_i2s_audio saa7115 stk1160 videobuf2_vmalloc videobuf2_memops videobuf2_v4l2 videobuf2_common videodev mc crct10dif_ce panfrost snd_soc_simple_card snd_soc_audio_graph_card snd_soc_spdif_tx snd_soc_simple_card_utils gpu_sched phy_rockchip_pcie snd_soc_rockchip_i2s rockchipdrm analogix_dp dw_mipi_dsi dw_hdmi cec drm_kms_helper drm rtc_rk808 rockchip_saradc industrialio_triggered_buffer kfifo_buf rockchip_thermal pcie_rockchip_host ip_tables x_tables ipv6
[ 65.589383] CPU: 5 PID: 593 Comm: v4l2src0:src Tainted: G W 5.16.0-rc4-62408-g32447129cb30-dirty #14
[ 65.590293] Hardware name: Radxa ROCK Pi 4B (DT)
[ 65.590696] pstate: 80000005 (Nzcv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
[ 65.591304] pc : vb2_start_streaming+0xd4/0x160 [videobuf2_common]
[ 65.591850] lr : vb2_start_streaming+0x6c/0x160 [videobuf2_common]
[ 65.592395] sp : ffff800012bc3ad0
[ 65.592685] x29: ffff800012bc3ad0 x28: 0000000000000000 x27: ffff800012bc3cd8
[ 65.593312] x26: 0000000000000000 x25: ffff00000d8a7800 x24: 0000000040045612
[ 65.593938] x23: ffff800011323000 x22: ffff800012bc3cd8 x21: ffff00000908a8b0
[ 65.594562] x20: ffff00000908a8c8 x19: 00000000fffffff4 x18: ffffffffffffffff
[ 65.595188] x17: 000000040044ffff x16: 00400034b5503510 x15: ffff800011323f78
[ 65.595813] x14: ffff000013163886 x13: ffff000013163885 x12: 00000000000002ce
[ 65.596439] x11: 0000000000000028 x10: 0000000000000001 x9 : 0000000000000228
[ 65.597064] x8 : 0101010101010101 x7 : 7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f x6 : fefefeff726c5e78
[ 65.597690] x5 : ffff800012bc3990 x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 : ffff000009a34880
[ 65.598315] x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : ffff000007cd99f0
[ 65.598940] Call trace:
[ 65.599155] vb2_start_streaming+0xd4/0x160 [videobuf2_common]
[ 65.599672] vb2_core_streamon+0x17c/0x1a8 [videobuf2_common]
[ 65.600179] vb2_streamon+0x54/0x88 [videobuf2_v4l2]
[ 65.600619] vb2_ioctl_streamon+0x54/0x60 [videobuf2_v4l2]
[ 65.601103] v4l_streamon+0x3c/0x50 [videodev]
[ 65.601521] __video_do_ioctl+0x1a4/0x428 [videodev]
[ 65.601977] video_usercopy+0x320/0x828 [videodev]
[ 65.602419] video_ioctl2+0x3c/0x58 [videodev]
[ 65.602830] v4l2_ioctl+0x60/0x90 [videodev]
[ 65.603227] __arm64_sys_ioctl+0xa8/0xe0
[ 65.603576] invoke_syscall+0x54/0x118
[ 65.603911] el0_svc_common.constprop.3+0x84/0x100
[ 65.604332] do_el0_svc+0x34/0xa0
[ 65.604625] el0_svc+0x1c/0x50
[ 65.604897] el0t_64_sync_handler+0x88/0xb0
[ 65.605264] el0t_64_sync+0x16c/0x170
[ 65.605587] ---[ end trace 578e0ba07742170d ]---
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ALSA: firewire-lib: fix uninitialized flag for AV/C deferred transaction
AV/C deferred transaction was supported at a commit 00a7bb81c20f ("ALSA:
firewire-lib: Add support for deferred transaction") while 'deferrable'
flag can be uninitialized for non-control/notify AV/C transactions.
UBSAN reports it:
kernel: ================================================================================
kernel: UBSAN: invalid-load in /build/linux-aa0B4d/linux-5.15.0/sound/firewire/fcp.c:363:9
kernel: load of value 158 is not a valid value for type '_Bool'
kernel: CPU: 3 PID: 182227 Comm: irq/35-firewire Tainted: P OE 5.15.0-18-generic #18-Ubuntu
kernel: Hardware name: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. AX370-Gaming 5/AX370-Gaming 5, BIOS F42b 08/01/2019
kernel: Call Trace:
kernel: <IRQ>
kernel: show_stack+0x52/0x58
kernel: dump_stack_lvl+0x4a/0x5f
kernel: dump_stack+0x10/0x12
kernel: ubsan_epilogue+0x9/0x45
kernel: __ubsan_handle_load_invalid_value.cold+0x44/0x49
kernel: fcp_response.part.0.cold+0x1a/0x2b [snd_firewire_lib]
kernel: fcp_response+0x28/0x30 [snd_firewire_lib]
kernel: fw_core_handle_request+0x230/0x3d0 [firewire_core]
kernel: handle_ar_packet+0x1d9/0x200 [firewire_ohci]
kernel: ? handle_ar_packet+0x1d9/0x200 [firewire_ohci]
kernel: ? transmit_complete_callback+0x9f/0x120 [firewire_core]
kernel: ar_context_tasklet+0xa8/0x2e0 [firewire_ohci]
kernel: tasklet_action_common.constprop.0+0xea/0xf0
kernel: tasklet_action+0x22/0x30
kernel: __do_softirq+0xd9/0x2e3
kernel: ? irq_finalize_oneshot.part.0+0xf0/0xf0
kernel: do_softirq+0x75/0xa0
kernel: </IRQ>
kernel: <TASK>
kernel: __local_bh_enable_ip+0x50/0x60
kernel: irq_forced_thread_fn+0x7e/0x90
kernel: irq_thread+0xba/0x190
kernel: ? irq_thread_fn+0x60/0x60
kernel: kthread+0x11e/0x140
kernel: ? irq_thread_check_affinity+0xf0/0xf0
kernel: ? set_kthread_struct+0x50/0x50
kernel: ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
kernel: </TASK>
kernel: ================================================================================
This commit fixes the bug. The bug has no disadvantage for the non-
control/notify AV/C transactions since the flag has an effect for AV/C
response with INTERIM (0x0f) status which is not used for the transactions
in AV/C general specification.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ath9k_htc: fix uninit value bugs
Syzbot reported 2 KMSAN bugs in ath9k. All of them are caused by missing
field initialization.
In htc_connect_service() svc_meta_len and pad are not initialized. Based
on code it looks like in current skb there is no service data, so simply
initialize svc_meta_len to 0.
htc_issue_send() does not initialize htc_frame_hdr::control array. Based
on firmware code, it will initialize it by itself, so simply zero whole
array to make KMSAN happy
Fail logs:
BUG: KMSAN: kernel-usb-infoleak in usb_submit_urb+0x6c1/0x2aa0 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:430
usb_submit_urb+0x6c1/0x2aa0 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:430
hif_usb_send_regout drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hif_usb.c:127 [inline]
hif_usb_send+0x5f0/0x16f0 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hif_usb.c:479
htc_issue_send drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_hst.c:34 [inline]
htc_connect_service+0x143e/0x1960 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_hst.c:275
...
Uninit was created at:
slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slab.h:524 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3251 [inline]
__kmalloc_node_track_caller+0xe0c/0x1510 mm/slub.c:4974
kmalloc_reserve net/core/skbuff.c:354 [inline]
__alloc_skb+0x545/0xf90 net/core/skbuff.c:426
alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1126 [inline]
htc_connect_service+0x1029/0x1960 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_hst.c:258
...
Bytes 4-7 of 18 are uninitialized
Memory access of size 18 starts at ffff888027377e00
BUG: KMSAN: kernel-usb-infoleak in usb_submit_urb+0x6c1/0x2aa0 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:430
usb_submit_urb+0x6c1/0x2aa0 drivers/usb/core/urb.c:430
hif_usb_send_regout drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hif_usb.c:127 [inline]
hif_usb_send+0x5f0/0x16f0 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/hif_usb.c:479
htc_issue_send drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_hst.c:34 [inline]
htc_connect_service+0x143e/0x1960 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_hst.c:275
...
Uninit was created at:
slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slab.h:524 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3251 [inline]
__kmalloc_node_track_caller+0xe0c/0x1510 mm/slub.c:4974
kmalloc_reserve net/core/skbuff.c:354 [inline]
__alloc_skb+0x545/0xf90 net/core/skbuff.c:426
alloc_skb include/linux/skbuff.h:1126 [inline]
htc_connect_service+0x1029/0x1960 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_hst.c:258
...
Bytes 16-17 of 18 are uninitialized
Memory access of size 18 starts at ffff888027377e00
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: pm8001: Fix abort all task initialization
In pm80xx_send_abort_all(), the n_elem field of the ccb used is not
initialized to 0. This missing initialization sometimes lead to the task
completion path seeing the ccb with a non-zero n_elem resulting in the
execution of invalid dma_unmap_sg() calls in pm8001_ccb_task_free(),
causing a crash such as:
[ 197.676341] RIP: 0010:iommu_dma_unmap_sg+0x6d/0x280
[ 197.700204] RSP: 0018:ffff889bbcf89c88 EFLAGS: 00010012
[ 197.705485] RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffffffff83d0bda0
[ 197.712687] RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff88810dffc0d0
[ 197.719887] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffff8881c790098b
[ 197.727089] R10: ffffed1038f20131 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000000
[ 197.734296] R13: ffff88810dffc0d0 R14: 0000000000000010 R15: 0000000000000000
[ 197.741493] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff889bbcf80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 197.749659] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 197.755459] CR2: 00007f16c1b42734 CR3: 0000000004814000 CR4: 0000000000350ee0
[ 197.762656] Call Trace:
[ 197.765127] <IRQ>
[ 197.767162] pm8001_ccb_task_free+0x5f1/0x820 [pm80xx]
[ 197.772364] ? do_raw_spin_unlock+0x54/0x220
[ 197.776680] pm8001_mpi_task_abort_resp+0x2ce/0x4f0 [pm80xx]
[ 197.782406] process_oq+0xe85/0x7890 [pm80xx]
[ 197.786817] ? lock_acquire+0x194/0x490
[ 197.790697] ? handle_irq_event+0x10e/0x1b0
[ 197.794920] ? mpi_sata_completion+0x2d70/0x2d70 [pm80xx]
[ 197.800378] ? __wake_up_bit+0x100/0x100
[ 197.804340] ? lock_is_held_type+0x98/0x110
[ 197.808565] pm80xx_chip_isr+0x94/0x130 [pm80xx]
[ 197.813243] tasklet_action_common.constprop.0+0x24b/0x2f0
[ 197.818785] __do_softirq+0x1b5/0x82d
[ 197.822485] ? do_raw_spin_unlock+0x54/0x220
[ 197.826799] __irq_exit_rcu+0x17e/0x1e0
[ 197.830678] irq_exit_rcu+0xa/0x20
[ 197.834114] common_interrupt+0x78/0x90
[ 197.840051] </IRQ>
[ 197.844236] <TASK>
[ 197.848397] asm_common_interrupt+0x1e/0x40
Avoid this issue by always initializing the ccb n_elem field to 0 in
pm8001_send_abort_all(), pm8001_send_read_log() and
pm80xx_send_abort_all().
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-02-26