Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 5.4.172 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net_sched: red: fix a race in __red_change()
Gerrard Tai reported a race condition in RED, whenever SFQ perturb timer
fires at the wrong time.
The race is as follows:
CPU 0 CPU 1
[1]: lock root
[2]: qdisc_tree_flush_backlog()
[3]: unlock root
|
| [5]: lock root
| [6]: rehash
| [7]: qdisc_tree_reduce_backlog()
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[4]: qdisc_put()
This can be abused to underflow a parent's qlen.
Calling qdisc_purge_queue() instead of qdisc_tree_flush_backlog()
should fix the race, because all packets will be purged from the qdisc
before releasing the lock.
CVSS Score
7.0
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-07-03
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: Fix TOCTOU issue in sk_is_readable()
sk->sk_prot->sock_is_readable is a valid function pointer when sk resides
in a sockmap. After the last sk_psock_put() (which usually happens when
socket is removed from sockmap), sk->sk_prot gets restored and
sk->sk_prot->sock_is_readable becomes NULL.
This makes sk_is_readable() racy, if the value of sk->sk_prot is reloaded
after the initial check. Which in turn may lead to a null pointer
dereference.
Ensure the function pointer does not turn NULL after the check.
CVSS Score
4.7
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-07-03
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: Disable SCO support if READ_VOICE_SETTING is unsupported/broken
A SCO connection without the proper voice_setting can cause
the controller to lock up.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-07-03
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
VMCI: fix race between vmci_host_setup_notify and vmci_ctx_unset_notify
During our test, it is found that a warning can be trigger in try_grab_folio
as follow:
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1678 at mm/gup.c:147 try_grab_folio+0x106/0x130
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1678 Comm: syz.3.31 Not tainted 6.15.0-rc5 #163 PREEMPT(undef)
RIP: 0010:try_grab_folio+0x106/0x130
Call Trace:
<TASK>
follow_huge_pmd+0x240/0x8e0
follow_pmd_mask.constprop.0.isra.0+0x40b/0x5c0
follow_pud_mask.constprop.0.isra.0+0x14a/0x170
follow_page_mask+0x1c2/0x1f0
__get_user_pages+0x176/0x950
__gup_longterm_locked+0x15b/0x1060
? gup_fast+0x120/0x1f0
gup_fast_fallback+0x17e/0x230
get_user_pages_fast+0x5f/0x80
vmci_host_unlocked_ioctl+0x21c/0xf80
RIP: 0033:0x54d2cd
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
Digging into the source, context->notify_page may init by get_user_pages_fast
and can be seen in vmci_ctx_unset_notify which will try to put_page. However
get_user_pages_fast is not finished here and lead to following
try_grab_folio warning. The race condition is shown as follow:
cpu0 cpu1
vmci_host_do_set_notify
vmci_host_setup_notify
get_user_pages_fast(uva, 1, FOLL_WRITE, &context->notify_page);
lockless_pages_from_mm
gup_pgd_range
gup_huge_pmd // update &context->notify_page
vmci_host_do_set_notify
vmci_ctx_unset_notify
notify_page = context->notify_page;
if (notify_page)
put_page(notify_page); // page is freed
__gup_longterm_locked
__get_user_pages
follow_trans_huge_pmd
try_grab_folio // warn here
To slove this, use local variable page to make notify_page can be seen
after finish get_user_pages_fast.
CVSS Score
7.0
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-07-03
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
HID: usbhid: Eliminate recurrent out-of-bounds bug in usbhid_parse()
Update struct hid_descriptor to better reflect the mandatory and
optional parts of the HID Descriptor as per USB HID 1.11 specification.
Note: the kernel currently does not parse any optional HID class
descriptors, only the mandatory report descriptor.
Update all references to member element desc[0] to rpt_desc.
Add test to verify bLength and bNumDescriptors values are valid.
Replace the for loop with direct access to the mandatory HID class
descriptor member for the report descriptor. This eliminates the
possibility of getting an out-of-bounds fault.
Add a warning message if the HID descriptor contains any unsupported
optional HID class descriptors.
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-07-03
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ALSA: usb-audio: Kill timer properly at removal
The USB-audio MIDI code initializes the timer, but in a rare case, the
driver might be freed without the disconnect call. This leaves the
timer in an active state while the assigned object is released via
snd_usbmidi_free(), which ends up with a kernel warning when the debug
configuration is enabled, as spotted by fuzzer.
For avoiding the problem, put timer_shutdown_sync() at
snd_usbmidi_free(), so that the timer can be killed properly.
While we're at it, replace the existing timer_delete_sync() at the
disconnect callback with timer_shutdown_sync(), too.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-07-03
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: iwlwifi: don't warn when if there is a FW error
iwl_trans_reclaim is warning if it is called when the FW is not alive.
But if it is called when there is a pending restart, i.e. after a FW
error, there is no need to warn, instead - return silently.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-07-03
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
dma-buf: insert memory barrier before updating num_fences
smp_store_mb() inserts memory barrier after storing operation.
It is different with what the comment is originally aiming so Null
pointer dereference can be happened if memory update is reordered.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-07-03
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: cadence: macb: Fix a possible deadlock in macb_halt_tx.
There is a situation where after THALT is set high, TGO stays high as
well. Because jiffies are never updated, as we are in a context with
interrupts disabled, we never exit that loop and have a deadlock.
That deadlock was noticed on a sama5d4 device that stayed locked for days.
Use retries instead of jiffies so that the timeout really works and we do
not have a deadlock anymore.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-07-03
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drivers/rapidio/rio_cm.c: prevent possible heap overwrite
In
riocm_cdev_ioctl(RIO_CM_CHAN_SEND)
-> cm_chan_msg_send()
-> riocm_ch_send()
cm_chan_msg_send() checks that userspace didn't send too much data but
riocm_ch_send() failed to check that userspace sent sufficient data. The
result is that riocm_ch_send() can write to fields in the rio_ch_chan_hdr
which were outside the bounds of the space which cm_chan_msg_send()
allocated.
Address this by teaching riocm_ch_send() to check that the entire
rio_ch_chan_hdr was copied in from userspace.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-06-30