Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 2.6.16.41 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
xen: privcmd: Switch from mutex to spinlock for irqfds
irqfd_wakeup() gets EPOLLHUP, when it is called by
eventfd_release() by way of wake_up_poll(&ctx->wqh, EPOLLHUP), which
gets called under spin_lock_irqsave(). We can't use a mutex here as it
will lead to a deadlock.
Fix it by switching over to a spin lock.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-09-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
usb: gadget: core: Check for unset descriptor
Make sure the descriptor has been set before looking at maxpacket.
This fixes a null pointer panic in this case.
This may happen if the gadget doesn't properly set up the endpoint
for the current speed, or the gadget descriptors are malformed and
the descriptor for the speed/endpoint are not found.
No current gadget driver is known to have this problem, but this
may cause a hard-to-find bug during development of new gadgets.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-09-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/amdgpu: Forward soft recovery errors to userspace
As we discussed before[1], soft recovery should be
forwarded to userspace, or we can get into a really
bad state where apps will keep submitting hanging
command buffers cascading us to a hard reset.
1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/bf23d5ed-9a6b-43e7-84ee-8cbfd0d60f18@froggi.es/
(cherry picked from commit 434967aadbbbe3ad9103cc29e9a327de20fdba01)
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-09-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: btnxpuart: Shutdown timer and prevent rearming when driver unloading
When unload the btnxpuart driver, its associated timer will be deleted.
If the timer happens to be modified at this moment, it leads to the
kernel call this timer even after the driver unloaded, resulting in
kernel panic.
Use timer_shutdown_sync() instead of del_timer_sync() to prevent rearming.
panic log:
Internal error: Oops: 0000000086000007 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
Modules linked in: algif_hash algif_skcipher af_alg moal(O) mlan(O) crct10dif_ce polyval_ce polyval_generic snd_soc_imx_card snd_soc_fsl_asoc_card snd_soc_imx_audmux mxc_jpeg_encdec v4l2_jpeg snd_soc_wm8962 snd_soc_fsl_micfil snd_soc_fsl_sai flexcan snd_soc_fsl_utils ap130x rpmsg_ctrl imx_pcm_dma can_dev rpmsg_char pwm_fan fuse [last unloaded: btnxpuart]
CPU: 5 PID: 723 Comm: memtester Tainted: G O 6.6.23-lts-next-06207-g4aef2658ac28 #1
Hardware name: NXP i.MX95 19X19 board (DT)
pstate: 20400009 (nzCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : 0xffff80007a2cf464
lr : call_timer_fn.isra.0+0x24/0x80
...
Call trace:
0xffff80007a2cf464
__run_timers+0x234/0x280
run_timer_softirq+0x20/0x40
__do_softirq+0x100/0x26c
____do_softirq+0x10/0x1c
call_on_irq_stack+0x24/0x4c
do_softirq_own_stack+0x1c/0x2c
irq_exit_rcu+0xc0/0xdc
el0_interrupt+0x54/0xd8
__el0_irq_handler_common+0x18/0x24
el0t_64_irq_handler+0x10/0x1c
el0t_64_irq+0x190/0x194
Code: ???????? ???????? ???????? ???????? (????????)
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
Kernel panic - not syncing: Oops: Fatal exception in interrupt
SMP: stopping secondary CPUs
Kernel Offset: disabled
CPU features: 0x0,c0000000,40028143,1000721b
Memory Limit: none
---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Oops: Fatal exception in interrupt ]---
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-09-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: do not BUG_ON() when freeing tree block after error
When freeing a tree block, at btrfs_free_tree_block(), if we fail to
create a delayed reference we don't deal with the error and just do a
BUG_ON(). The error most likely to happen is -ENOMEM, and we have a
comment mentioning that only -ENOMEM can happen, but that is not true,
because in case qgroups are enabled any error returned from
btrfs_qgroup_trace_extent_post() (can be -EUCLEAN or anything returned
from btrfs_search_slot() for example) can be propagated back to
btrfs_free_tree_block().
So stop doing a BUG_ON() and return the error to the callers and make
them abort the transaction to prevent leaking space. Syzbot was
triggering this, likely due to memory allocation failure injection.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-09-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
jfs: fix null ptr deref in dtInsertEntry
[syzbot reported]
general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000001: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000008-0x000000000000000f]
CPU: 0 PID: 5061 Comm: syz-executor404 Not tainted 6.8.0-syzkaller-08951-gfe46a7dd189e #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 03/27/2024
RIP: 0010:dtInsertEntry+0xd0c/0x1780 fs/jfs/jfs_dtree.c:3713
...
[Analyze]
In dtInsertEntry(), when the pointer h has the same value as p, after writing
name in UniStrncpy_to_le(), p->header.flag will be cleared. This will cause the
previously true judgment "p->header.flag & BT-LEAF" to change to no after writing
the name operation, this leads to entering an incorrect branch and accessing the
uninitialized object ih when judging this condition for the second time.
[Fix]
After got the page, check freelist first, if freelist == 0 then exit dtInsert()
and return -EINVAL.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-08-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
f2fs: fix to do sanity check on F2FS_INLINE_DATA flag in inode during GC
syzbot reports a f2fs bug as below:
------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at fs/f2fs/inline.c:258!
CPU: 1 PID: 34 Comm: kworker/u8:2 Not tainted 6.9.0-rc6-syzkaller-00012-g9e4bc4bcae01 #0
RIP: 0010:f2fs_write_inline_data+0x781/0x790 fs/f2fs/inline.c:258
Call Trace:
f2fs_write_single_data_page+0xb65/0x1d60 fs/f2fs/data.c:2834
f2fs_write_cache_pages fs/f2fs/data.c:3133 [inline]
__f2fs_write_data_pages fs/f2fs/data.c:3288 [inline]
f2fs_write_data_pages+0x1efe/0x3a90 fs/f2fs/data.c:3315
do_writepages+0x35b/0x870 mm/page-writeback.c:2612
__writeback_single_inode+0x165/0x10b0 fs/fs-writeback.c:1650
writeback_sb_inodes+0x905/0x1260 fs/fs-writeback.c:1941
wb_writeback+0x457/0xce0 fs/fs-writeback.c:2117
wb_do_writeback fs/fs-writeback.c:2264 [inline]
wb_workfn+0x410/0x1090 fs/fs-writeback.c:2304
process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3254 [inline]
process_scheduled_works+0xa12/0x17c0 kernel/workqueue.c:3335
worker_thread+0x86d/0xd70 kernel/workqueue.c:3416
kthread+0x2f2/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:388
ret_from_fork+0x4d/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:244
The root cause is: inline_data inode can be fuzzed, so that there may
be valid blkaddr in its direct node, once f2fs triggers background GC
to migrate the block, it will hit f2fs_bug_on() during dirty page
writeback.
Let's add sanity check on F2FS_INLINE_DATA flag in inode during GC,
so that, it can forbid migrating inline_data inode's data block for
fixing.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-08-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
jfs: Fix shift-out-of-bounds in dbDiscardAG
When searching for the next smaller log2 block, BLKSTOL2() returned 0,
causing shift exponent -1 to be negative.
This patch fixes the issue by exiting the loop directly when negative
shift is found.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-08-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/amdgpu/pm: Fix the null pointer dereference in apply_state_adjust_rules
Check the pointer value to fix potential null pointer
dereference
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-08-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/amdgpu: Fix the null pointer dereference to ras_manager
Check ras_manager before using it
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-08-26