Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 3.10 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: fix use-after-free when COWing tree bock and tracing is enabled
When a COWing a tree block, at btrfs_cow_block(), and we have the
tracepoint trace_btrfs_cow_block() enabled and preemption is also enabled
(CONFIG_PREEMPT=y), we can trigger a use-after-free in the COWed extent
buffer while inside the tracepoint code. This is because in some paths
that call btrfs_cow_block(), such as btrfs_search_slot(), we are holding
the last reference on the extent buffer @buf so btrfs_force_cow_block()
drops the last reference on the @buf extent buffer when it calls
free_extent_buffer_stale(buf), which schedules the release of the extent
buffer with RCU. This means that if we are on a kernel with preemption,
the current task may be preempted before calling trace_btrfs_cow_block()
and the extent buffer already released by the time trace_btrfs_cow_block()
is called, resulting in a use-after-free.
Fix this by moving the trace_btrfs_cow_block() from btrfs_cow_block() to
btrfs_force_cow_block() before the COWed extent buffer is freed.
This also has a side effect of invoking the tracepoint in the tree defrag
code, at defrag.c:btrfs_realloc_node(), since btrfs_force_cow_block() is
called there, but this is fine and it was actually missing there.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-01-06
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: s5p_cec: limit msg.len to CEC_MAX_MSG_SIZE
I expect that the hardware will have limited this to 16, but just in
case it hasn't, check for this corner case.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-01-02
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fbdev: sh7760fb: Fix a possible memory leak in sh7760fb_alloc_mem()
When information such as info->screen_base is not ready, calling
sh7760fb_free_mem() does not release memory correctly. Call
dma_free_coherent() instead.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-12-29
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
rtc: check if __rtc_read_time was successful in rtc_timer_do_work()
If the __rtc_read_time call fails,, the struct rtc_time tm; may contain
uninitialized data, or an illegal date/time read from the RTC hardware.
When calling rtc_tm_to_ktime later, the result may be a very large value
(possibly KTIME_MAX). If there are periodic timers in rtc->timerqueue,
they will continually expire, may causing kernel softlockup.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-12-29
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: wl128x: Fix atomicity violation in fmc_send_cmd()
Atomicity violation occurs when the fmc_send_cmd() function is executed
simultaneously with the modification of the fmdev->resp_skb value.
Consider a scenario where, after passing the validity check within the
function, a non-null fmdev->resp_skb variable is assigned a null value.
This results in an invalid fmdev->resp_skb variable passing the validity
check. As seen in the later part of the function, skb = fmdev->resp_skb;
when the invalid fmdev->resp_skb passes the check, a null pointer
dereference error may occur at line 478, evt_hdr = (void *)skb->data;
To address this issue, it is recommended to include the validity check of
fmdev->resp_skb within the locked section of the function. This
modification ensures that the value of fmdev->resp_skb does not change
during the validation process, thereby maintaining its validity.
This possible bug is found by an experimental static analysis tool
developed by our team. This tool analyzes the locking APIs
to extract function pairs that can be concurrently executed, and then
analyzes the instructions in the paired functions to identify possible
concurrency bugs including data races and atomicity violations.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-12-28
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
f2fs: fix to do sanity check on node blkaddr in truncate_node()
syzbot reports a f2fs bug as below:
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kernel BUG at fs/f2fs/segment.c:2534!
RIP: 0010:f2fs_invalidate_blocks+0x35f/0x370 fs/f2fs/segment.c:2534
Call Trace:
truncate_node+0x1ae/0x8c0 fs/f2fs/node.c:909
f2fs_remove_inode_page+0x5c2/0x870 fs/f2fs/node.c:1288
f2fs_evict_inode+0x879/0x15c0 fs/f2fs/inode.c:856
evict+0x4e8/0x9b0 fs/inode.c:723
f2fs_handle_failed_inode+0x271/0x2e0 fs/f2fs/inode.c:986
f2fs_create+0x357/0x530 fs/f2fs/namei.c:394
lookup_open fs/namei.c:3595 [inline]
open_last_lookups fs/namei.c:3694 [inline]
path_openat+0x1c03/0x3590 fs/namei.c:3930
do_filp_open+0x235/0x490 fs/namei.c:3960
do_sys_openat2+0x13e/0x1d0 fs/open.c:1415
do_sys_open fs/open.c:1430 [inline]
__do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1446 [inline]
__se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1441 [inline]
__x64_sys_openat+0x247/0x2a0 fs/open.c:1441
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0010:f2fs_invalidate_blocks+0x35f/0x370 fs/f2fs/segment.c:2534
The root cause is: on a fuzzed image, blkaddr in nat entry may be
corrupted, then it will cause system panic when using it in
f2fs_invalidate_blocks(), to avoid this, let's add sanity check on
nat blkaddr in truncate_node().
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-12-28
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
usb: gadget: u_serial: Fix the issue that gs_start_io crashed due to accessing null pointer
Considering that in some extreme cases,
when u_serial driver is accessed by multiple threads,
Thread A is executing the open operation and calling the gs_open,
Thread B is executing the disconnect operation and calling the
gserial_disconnect function,The port->port_usb pointer will be set to NULL.
E.g.
Thread A Thread B
gs_open() gadget_unbind_driver()
gs_start_io() composite_disconnect()
gs_start_rx() gserial_disconnect()
... ...
spin_unlock(&port->port_lock)
status = usb_ep_queue() spin_lock(&port->port_lock)
spin_lock(&port->port_lock) port->port_usb = NULL
gs_free_requests(port->port_usb->in) spin_unlock(&port->port_lock)
Crash
This causes thread A to access a null pointer (port->port_usb is null)
when calling the gs_free_requests function, causing a crash.
If port_usb is NULL, the release request will be skipped as it
will be done by gserial_disconnect.
So add a null pointer check to gs_start_io before attempting
to access the value of the pointer port->port_usb.
Call trace:
gs_start_io+0x164/0x25c
gs_open+0x108/0x13c
tty_open+0x314/0x638
chrdev_open+0x1b8/0x258
do_dentry_open+0x2c4/0x700
vfs_open+0x2c/0x3c
path_openat+0xa64/0xc60
do_filp_open+0xb8/0x164
do_sys_openat2+0x84/0xf0
__arm64_sys_openat+0x70/0x9c
invoke_syscall+0x58/0x114
el0_svc_common+0x80/0xe0
do_el0_svc+0x1c/0x28
el0_svc+0x38/0x68
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-12-27
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: lapb: increase LAPB_HEADER_LEN
It is unclear if net/lapb code is supposed to be ready for 8021q.
We can at least avoid crashes like the following :
skbuff: skb_under_panic: text:ffffffff8aabe1f6 len:24 put:20 head:ffff88802824a400 data:ffff88802824a3fe tail:0x16 end:0x140 dev:nr0.2
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kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c:206 !
Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN PTI
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 5508 Comm: dhcpcd Not tainted 6.12.0-rc7-syzkaller-00144-g66418447d27b #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/30/2024
RIP: 0010:skb_panic net/core/skbuff.c:206 [inline]
RIP: 0010:skb_under_panic+0x14b/0x150 net/core/skbuff.c:216
Code: 0d 8d 48 c7 c6 2e 9e 29 8e 48 8b 54 24 08 8b 0c 24 44 8b 44 24 04 4d 89 e9 50 41 54 41 57 41 56 e8 1a 6f 37 02 48 83 c4 20 90 <0f> 0b 0f 1f 00 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 f3
RSP: 0018:ffffc90002ddf638 EFLAGS: 00010282
RAX: 0000000000000086 RBX: dffffc0000000000 RCX: 7a24750e538ff600
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000201 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffff888034a86650 R08: ffffffff8174b13c R09: 1ffff920005bbe60
R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffff520005bbe61 R12: 0000000000000140
R13: ffff88802824a400 R14: ffff88802824a3fe R15: 0000000000000016
FS: 00007f2a5990d740(0000) GS:ffff8880b8700000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 000000110c2631fd CR3: 0000000029504000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
<TASK>
skb_push+0xe5/0x100 net/core/skbuff.c:2636
nr_header+0x36/0x320 net/netrom/nr_dev.c:69
dev_hard_header include/linux/netdevice.h:3148 [inline]
vlan_dev_hard_header+0x359/0x480 net/8021q/vlan_dev.c:83
dev_hard_header include/linux/netdevice.h:3148 [inline]
lapbeth_data_transmit+0x1f6/0x2a0 drivers/net/wan/lapbether.c:257
lapb_data_transmit+0x91/0xb0 net/lapb/lapb_iface.c:447
lapb_transmit_buffer+0x168/0x1f0 net/lapb/lapb_out.c:149
lapb_establish_data_link+0x84/0xd0
lapb_device_event+0x4e0/0x670
notifier_call_chain+0x19f/0x3e0 kernel/notifier.c:93
__dev_notify_flags+0x207/0x400
dev_change_flags+0xf0/0x1a0 net/core/dev.c:8922
devinet_ioctl+0xa4e/0x1aa0 net/ipv4/devinet.c:1188
inet_ioctl+0x3d7/0x4f0 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:1003
sock_do_ioctl+0x158/0x460 net/socket.c:1227
sock_ioctl+0x626/0x8e0 net/socket.c:1346
vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
__do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:907 [inline]
__se_sys_ioctl+0xf9/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:893
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-12-27
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
dccp: Fix memory leak in dccp_feat_change_recv
If dccp_feat_push_confirm() fails after new value for SP feature was accepted
without reconciliation ('entry == NULL' branch), memory allocated for that value
with dccp_feat_clone_sp_val() is never freed.
Here is the kmemleak stack for this:
unreferenced object 0xffff88801d4ab488 (size 8):
comm "syz-executor310", pid 1127, jiffies 4295085598 (age 41.666s)
hex dump (first 8 bytes):
01 b4 4a 1d 80 88 ff ff ..J.....
backtrace:
[<00000000db7cabfe>] kmemdup+0x23/0x50 mm/util.c:128
[<0000000019b38405>] kmemdup include/linux/string.h:465 [inline]
[<0000000019b38405>] dccp_feat_clone_sp_val net/dccp/feat.c:371 [inline]
[<0000000019b38405>] dccp_feat_clone_sp_val net/dccp/feat.c:367 [inline]
[<0000000019b38405>] dccp_feat_change_recv net/dccp/feat.c:1145 [inline]
[<0000000019b38405>] dccp_feat_parse_options+0x1196/0x2180 net/dccp/feat.c:1416
[<00000000b1f6d94a>] dccp_parse_options+0xa2a/0x1260 net/dccp/options.c:125
[<0000000030d7b621>] dccp_rcv_state_process+0x197/0x13d0 net/dccp/input.c:650
[<000000001f74c72e>] dccp_v4_do_rcv+0xf9/0x1a0 net/dccp/ipv4.c:688
[<00000000a6c24128>] sk_backlog_rcv include/net/sock.h:1041 [inline]
[<00000000a6c24128>] __release_sock+0x139/0x3b0 net/core/sock.c:2570
[<00000000cf1f3a53>] release_sock+0x54/0x1b0 net/core/sock.c:3111
[<000000008422fa23>] inet_wait_for_connect net/ipv4/af_inet.c:603 [inline]
[<000000008422fa23>] __inet_stream_connect+0x5d0/0xf70 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:696
[<0000000015b6f64d>] inet_stream_connect+0x53/0xa0 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:735
[<0000000010122488>] __sys_connect_file+0x15c/0x1a0 net/socket.c:1865
[<00000000b4b70023>] __sys_connect+0x165/0x1a0 net/socket.c:1882
[<00000000f4cb3815>] __do_sys_connect net/socket.c:1892 [inline]
[<00000000f4cb3815>] __se_sys_connect net/socket.c:1889 [inline]
[<00000000f4cb3815>] __x64_sys_connect+0x6e/0xb0 net/socket.c:1889
[<00000000e7b1e839>] do_syscall_64+0x33/0x40 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46
[<0000000055e91434>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x67/0xd1
Clean up the allocated memory in case of dccp_feat_push_confirm() failure
and bail out with an error reset code.
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-12-27
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/ipv6: release expired exception dst cached in socket
Dst objects get leaked in ip6_negative_advice() when this function is
executed for an expired IPv6 route located in the exception table. There
are several conditions that must be fulfilled for the leak to occur:
* an ICMPv6 packet indicating a change of the MTU for the path is received,
resulting in an exception dst being created
* a TCP connection that uses the exception dst for routing packets must
start timing out so that TCP begins retransmissions
* after the exception dst expires, the FIB6 garbage collector must not run
before TCP executes ip6_negative_advice() for the expired exception dst
When TCP executes ip6_negative_advice() for an exception dst that has
expired and if no other socket holds a reference to the exception dst, the
refcount of the exception dst is 2, which corresponds to the increment
made by dst_init() and the increment made by the TCP socket for which the
connection is timing out. The refcount made by the socket is never
released. The refcount of the dst is decremented in sk_dst_reset() but
that decrement is counteracted by a dst_hold() intentionally placed just
before the sk_dst_reset() in ip6_negative_advice(). After
ip6_negative_advice() has finished, there is no other object tied to the
dst. The socket lost its reference stored in sk_dst_cache and the dst is
no longer in the exception table. The exception dst becomes a leaked
object.
As a result of this dst leak, an unbalanced refcount is reported for the
loopback device of a net namespace being destroyed under kernels that do
not contain e5f80fcf869a ("ipv6: give an IPv6 dev to blackhole_netdev"):
unregister_netdevice: waiting for lo to become free. Usage count = 2
Fix the dst leak by removing the dst_hold() in ip6_negative_advice(). The
patch that introduced the dst_hold() in ip6_negative_advice() was
92f1655aa2b22 ("net: fix __dst_negative_advice() race"). But 92f1655aa2b22
merely refactored the code with regards to the dst refcount so the issue
was present even before 92f1655aa2b22. The bug was introduced in
54c1a859efd9f ("ipv6: Don't drop cache route entry unless timer actually
expired.") where the expired cached route is deleted and the sk_dst_cache
member of the socket is set to NULL by calling dst_negative_advice() but
the refcount belonging to the socket is left unbalanced.
The IPv4 version - ipv4_negative_advice() - is not affected by this bug.
When the TCP connection times out ipv4_negative_advice() merely resets the
sk_dst_cache of the socket while decrementing the refcount of the
exception dst.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-12-27