Security Vulnerabilities - CVEs Published In January 2025
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
openvswitch: fix lockup on tx to unregistering netdev with carrier
Commit in a fixes tag attempted to fix the issue in the following
sequence of calls:
do_output
-> ovs_vport_send
-> dev_queue_xmit
-> __dev_queue_xmit
-> netdev_core_pick_tx
-> skb_tx_hash
When device is unregistering, the 'dev->real_num_tx_queues' goes to
zero and the 'while (unlikely(hash >= qcount))' loop inside the
'skb_tx_hash' becomes infinite, locking up the core forever.
But unfortunately, checking just the carrier status is not enough to
fix the issue, because some devices may still be in unregistering
state while reporting carrier status OK.
One example of such device is a net/dummy. It sets carrier ON
on start, but it doesn't implement .ndo_stop to set the carrier off.
And it makes sense, because dummy doesn't really have a carrier.
Therefore, while this device is unregistering, it's still easy to hit
the infinite loop in the skb_tx_hash() from the OVS datapath. There
might be other drivers that do the same, but dummy by itself is
important for the OVS ecosystem, because it is frequently used as a
packet sink for tcpdump while debugging OVS deployments. And when the
issue is hit, the only way to recover is to reboot.
Fix that by also checking if the device is running. The running
state is handled by the net core during unregistering, so it covers
unregistering case better, and we don't really need to send packets
to devices that are not running anyway.
While only checking the running state might be enough, the carrier
check is preserved. The running and the carrier states seem disjoined
throughout the code and different drivers. And other core functions
like __dev_direct_xmit() check both before attempting to transmit
a packet. So, it seems safer to check both flags in OVS as well.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-01-31
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
eth: bnxt: always recalculate features after XDP clearing, fix null-deref
Recalculate features when XDP is detached.
Before:
# ip li set dev eth0 xdp obj xdp_dummy.bpf.o sec xdp
# ip li set dev eth0 xdp off
# ethtool -k eth0 | grep gro
rx-gro-hw: off [requested on]
After:
# ip li set dev eth0 xdp obj xdp_dummy.bpf.o sec xdp
# ip li set dev eth0 xdp off
# ethtool -k eth0 | grep gro
rx-gro-hw: on
The fact that HW-GRO doesn't get re-enabled automatically is just
a minor annoyance. The real issue is that the features will randomly
come back during another reconfiguration which just happens to invoke
netdev_update_features(). The driver doesn't handle reconfiguring
two things at a time very robustly.
Starting with commit 98ba1d931f61 ("bnxt_en: Fix RSS logic in
__bnxt_reserve_rings()") we only reconfigure the RSS hash table
if the "effective" number of Rx rings has changed. If HW-GRO is
enabled "effective" number of rings is 2x what user sees.
So if we are in the bad state, with HW-GRO re-enablement "pending"
after XDP off, and we lower the rings by / 2 - the HW-GRO rings
doing 2x and the ethtool -L doing / 2 may cancel each other out,
and the:
if (old_rx_rings != bp->hw_resc.resv_rx_rings &&
condition in __bnxt_reserve_rings() will be false.
The RSS map won't get updated, and we'll crash with:
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000168
RIP: 0010:__bnxt_hwrm_vnic_set_rss+0x13a/0x1a0
bnxt_hwrm_vnic_rss_cfg_p5+0x47/0x180
__bnxt_setup_vnic_p5+0x58/0x110
bnxt_init_nic+0xb72/0xf50
__bnxt_open_nic+0x40d/0xab0
bnxt_open_nic+0x2b/0x60
ethtool_set_channels+0x18c/0x1d0
As we try to access a freed ring.
The issue is present since XDP support was added, really, but
prior to commit 98ba1d931f61 ("bnxt_en: Fix RSS logic in
__bnxt_reserve_rings()") it wasn't causing major issues.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-01-31
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bpf: Fix bpf_sk_select_reuseport() memory leak
As pointed out in the original comment, lookup in sockmap can return a TCP
ESTABLISHED socket. Such TCP socket may have had SO_ATTACH_REUSEPORT_EBPF
set before it was ESTABLISHED. In other words, a non-NULL sk_reuseport_cb
does not imply a non-refcounted socket.
Drop sk's reference in both error paths.
unreferenced object 0xffff888101911800 (size 2048):
comm "test_progs", pid 44109, jiffies 4297131437
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
80 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace (crc 9336483b):
__kmalloc_noprof+0x3bf/0x560
__reuseport_alloc+0x1d/0x40
reuseport_alloc+0xca/0x150
reuseport_attach_prog+0x87/0x140
sk_reuseport_attach_bpf+0xc8/0x100
sk_setsockopt+0x1181/0x1990
do_sock_setsockopt+0x12b/0x160
__sys_setsockopt+0x7b/0xc0
__x64_sys_setsockopt+0x1b/0x30
do_syscall_64+0x93/0x180
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-01-31
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
vsock/virtio: discard packets if the transport changes
If the socket has been de-assigned or assigned to another transport,
we must discard any packets received because they are not expected
and would cause issues when we access vsk->transport.
A possible scenario is described by Hyunwoo Kim in the attached link,
where after a first connect() interrupted by a signal, and a second
connect() failed, we can find `vsk->transport` at NULL, leading to a
NULL pointer dereference.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-01-31
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
vsock/bpf: return early if transport is not assigned
Some of the core functions can only be called if the transport
has been assigned.
As Michal reported, a socket might have the transport at NULL,
for example after a failed connect(), causing the following trace:
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 00000000000000a0
#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
PGD 12faf8067 P4D 12faf8067 PUD 113670067 PMD 0
Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
CPU: 15 UID: 0 PID: 1198 Comm: a.out Not tainted 6.13.0-rc2+
RIP: 0010:vsock_connectible_has_data+0x1f/0x40
Call Trace:
vsock_bpf_recvmsg+0xca/0x5e0
sock_recvmsg+0xb9/0xc0
__sys_recvfrom+0xb3/0x130
__x64_sys_recvfrom+0x20/0x30
do_syscall_64+0x93/0x180
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
So we need to check the `vsk->transport` in vsock_bpf_recvmsg(),
especially for connected sockets (stream/seqpacket) as we already
do in __vsock_connectible_recvmsg().
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-01-31
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
zram: fix potential UAF of zram table
If zram_meta_alloc failed early, it frees allocated zram->table without
setting it NULL. Which will potentially cause zram_meta_free to access
the table if user reset an failed and uninitialized device.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-01-31
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
afs: Fix merge preference rule failure condition
syzbot reported a lock held when returning to userspace[1]. This is
because if argc is less than 0 and the function returns directly, the held
inode lock is not released.
Fix this by store the error in ret and jump to done to clean up instead of
returning directly.
[dh: Modified Lizhi Xu's original patch to make it honour the error code
from afs_split_string()]
[1]
WARNING: lock held when returning to user space!
6.13.0-rc3-syzkaller-00209-g499551201b5f #0 Not tainted
------------------------------------------------
syz-executor133/5823 is leaving the kernel with locks still held!
1 lock held by syz-executor133/5823:
#0: ffff888071cffc00 (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#9){++++}-{4:4}, at: inode_lock include/linux/fs.h:818 [inline]
#0: ffff888071cffc00 (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#9){++++}-{4:4}, at: afs_proc_addr_prefs_write+0x2bb/0x14e0 fs/afs/addr_prefs.c:388
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-01-31
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
smb: client: fix double free of TCP_Server_Info::hostname
When shutting down the server in cifs_put_tcp_session(), cifsd thread
might be reconnecting to multiple DFS targets before it realizes it
should exit the loop, so @server->hostname can't be freed as long as
cifsd thread isn't done. Otherwise the following can happen:
RIP: 0010:__slab_free+0x223/0x3c0
Code: 5e 41 5f c3 cc cc cc cc 4c 89 de 4c 89 cf 44 89 44 24 08 4c 89
1c 24 e8 fb cf 8e 00 44 8b 44 24 08 4c 8b 1c 24 e9 5f fe ff ff <0f>
0b 41 f7 45 08 00 0d 21 00 0f 85 2d ff ff ff e9 1f ff ff ff 80
RSP: 0018:ffffb26180dbfd08 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: ffff8ea34728e510 RBX: ffff8ea34728e500 RCX: 0000000000800068
RDX: 0000000000800068 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff8ea340042400
RBP: ffffe112041ca380 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 6170732e31303000 R11: 70726f632e786563 R12: ffff8ea34728e500
R13: ffff8ea340042400 R14: ffff8ea34728e500 R15: 0000000000800068
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8ea66fd80000(0000)
000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007ffc25376080 CR3: 000000012a2ba001 CR4:
PKRU: 55555554
Call Trace:
<TASK>
? show_trace_log_lvl+0x1c4/0x2df
? show_trace_log_lvl+0x1c4/0x2df
? __reconnect_target_unlocked+0x3e/0x160 [cifs]
? __die_body.cold+0x8/0xd
? die+0x2b/0x50
? do_trap+0xce/0x120
? __slab_free+0x223/0x3c0
? do_error_trap+0x65/0x80
? __slab_free+0x223/0x3c0
? exc_invalid_op+0x4e/0x70
? __slab_free+0x223/0x3c0
? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x16/0x20
? __slab_free+0x223/0x3c0
? extract_hostname+0x5c/0xa0 [cifs]
? extract_hostname+0x5c/0xa0 [cifs]
? __kmalloc+0x4b/0x140
__reconnect_target_unlocked+0x3e/0x160 [cifs]
reconnect_dfs_server+0x145/0x430 [cifs]
cifs_handle_standard+0x1ad/0x1d0 [cifs]
cifs_demultiplex_thread+0x592/0x730 [cifs]
? __pfx_cifs_demultiplex_thread+0x10/0x10 [cifs]
kthread+0xdd/0x100
? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
ret_from_fork+0x29/0x50
</TASK>
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-01-31
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/mlx5e: Fix inversion dependency warning while enabling IPsec tunnel
Attempt to enable IPsec packet offload in tunnel mode in debug kernel
generates the following kernel panic, which is happening due to two
issues:
1. In SA add section, the should be _bh() variant when marking SA mode.
2. There is not needed flush_workqueue in SA delete routine. It is not
needed as at this stage as it is removed from SADB and the running work
will be canceled later in SA free.
=====================================================
WARNING: SOFTIRQ-safe -> SOFTIRQ-unsafe lock order detected
6.12.0+ #4 Not tainted
-----------------------------------------------------
charon/1337 [HC0[0]:SC0[4]:HE1:SE0] is trying to acquire:
ffff88810f365020 (&xa->xa_lock#24){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: mlx5e_xfrm_del_state+0xca/0x1e0 [mlx5_core]
and this task is already holding:
ffff88813e0f0d48 (&x->lock){+.-.}-{3:3}, at: xfrm_state_delete+0x16/0x30
which would create a new lock dependency:
(&x->lock){+.-.}-{3:3} -> (&xa->xa_lock#24){+.+.}-{3:3}
but this new dependency connects a SOFTIRQ-irq-safe lock:
(&x->lock){+.-.}-{3:3}
... which became SOFTIRQ-irq-safe at:
lock_acquire+0x1be/0x520
_raw_spin_lock_bh+0x34/0x40
xfrm_timer_handler+0x91/0xd70
__hrtimer_run_queues+0x1dd/0xa60
hrtimer_run_softirq+0x146/0x2e0
handle_softirqs+0x266/0x860
irq_exit_rcu+0x115/0x1a0
sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x6e/0x90
asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20
default_idle+0x13/0x20
default_idle_call+0x67/0xa0
do_idle+0x2da/0x320
cpu_startup_entry+0x50/0x60
start_secondary+0x213/0x2a0
common_startup_64+0x129/0x138
to a SOFTIRQ-irq-unsafe lock:
(&xa->xa_lock#24){+.+.}-{3:3}
... which became SOFTIRQ-irq-unsafe at:
...
lock_acquire+0x1be/0x520
_raw_spin_lock+0x2c/0x40
xa_set_mark+0x70/0x110
mlx5e_xfrm_add_state+0xe48/0x2290 [mlx5_core]
xfrm_dev_state_add+0x3bb/0xd70
xfrm_add_sa+0x2451/0x4a90
xfrm_user_rcv_msg+0x493/0x880
netlink_rcv_skb+0x12e/0x380
xfrm_netlink_rcv+0x6d/0x90
netlink_unicast+0x42f/0x740
netlink_sendmsg+0x745/0xbe0
__sock_sendmsg+0xc5/0x190
__sys_sendto+0x1fe/0x2c0
__x64_sys_sendto+0xdc/0x1b0
do_syscall_64+0x6d/0x140
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
other info that might help us debug this:
Possible interrupt unsafe locking scenario:
CPU0 CPU1
---- ----
lock(&xa->xa_lock#24);
local_irq_disable();
lock(&x->lock);
lock(&xa->xa_lock#24);
<Interrupt>
lock(&x->lock);
*** DEADLOCK ***
2 locks held by charon/1337:
#0: ffffffff87f8f858 (&net->xfrm.xfrm_cfg_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: xfrm_netlink_rcv+0x5e/0x90
#1: ffff88813e0f0d48 (&x->lock){+.-.}-{3:3}, at: xfrm_state_delete+0x16/0x30
the dependencies between SOFTIRQ-irq-safe lock and the holding lock:
-> (&x->lock){+.-.}-{3:3} ops: 29 {
HARDIRQ-ON-W at:
lock_acquire+0x1be/0x520
_raw_spin_lock_bh+0x34/0x40
xfrm_alloc_spi+0xc0/0xe60
xfrm_alloc_userspi+0x5f6/0xbc0
xfrm_user_rcv_msg+0x493/0x880
netlink_rcv_skb+0x12e/0x380
xfrm_netlink_rcv+0x6d/0x90
netlink_unicast+0x42f/0x740
netlink_sendmsg+0x745/0xbe0
__sock_sendmsg+0xc5/0x190
__sys_sendto+0x1fe/0x2c0
__x64_sys_sendto+0xdc/0x1b0
do_syscall_64+0x6d/0x140
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
IN-SOFTIRQ-W at:
lock_acquire+0x1be/0x520
_raw_spin_lock_bh+0x34/0x40
xfrm_timer_handler+0x91/0xd70
__hrtimer_run_queues+0x1dd/0xa60
---truncated---
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-01-31
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/mlx5: Clear port select structure when fail to create
Clear the port select structure on error so no stale values left after
definers are destroyed. That's because the mlx5_lag_destroy_definers()
always try to destroy all lag definers in the tt_map, so in the flow
below lag definers get double-destroyed and cause kernel crash:
mlx5_lag_port_sel_create()
mlx5_lag_create_definers()
mlx5_lag_create_definer() <- Failed on tt 1
mlx5_lag_destroy_definers() <- definers[tt=0] gets destroyed
mlx5_lag_port_sel_create()
mlx5_lag_create_definers()
mlx5_lag_create_definer() <- Failed on tt 0
mlx5_lag_destroy_definers() <- definers[tt=0] gets double-destroyed
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000008
Mem abort info:
ESR = 0x0000000096000005
EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
SET = 0, FnV = 0
EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
FSC = 0x05: level 1 translation fault
Data abort info:
ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000005, ISS2 = 0x00000000
CM = 0, WnR = 0, TnD = 0, TagAccess = 0
GCS = 0, Overlay = 0, DirtyBit = 0, Xs = 0
user pgtable: 64k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=0000000112ce2e00
[0000000000000008] pgd=0000000000000000, p4d=0000000000000000, pud=0000000000000000
Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000005 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
Modules linked in: iptable_raw bonding ip_gre ip6_gre gre ip6_tunnel tunnel6 geneve ip6_udp_tunnel udp_tunnel ipip tunnel4 ip_tunnel rdma_ucm(OE) rdma_cm(OE) iw_cm(OE) ib_ipoib(OE) ib_cm(OE) ib_umad(OE) mlx5_ib(OE) ib_uverbs(OE) mlx5_fwctl(OE) fwctl(OE) mlx5_core(OE) mlxdevm(OE) ib_core(OE) mlxfw(OE) memtrack(OE) mlx_compat(OE) openvswitch nsh nf_conncount psample xt_conntrack xt_MASQUERADE nf_conntrack_netlink nfnetlink xfrm_user xfrm_algo xt_addrtype iptable_filter iptable_nat nf_nat nf_conntrack nf_defrag_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv4 br_netfilter bridge stp llc netconsole overlay efi_pstore sch_fq_codel zram ip_tables crct10dif_ce qemu_fw_cfg fuse ipv6 crc_ccitt [last unloaded: mlx_compat(OE)]
CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 217 Comm: kworker/u53:2 Tainted: G OE 6.11.0+ #2
Tainted: [O]=OOT_MODULE, [E]=UNSIGNED_MODULE
Hardware name: QEMU KVM Virtual Machine, BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
Workqueue: mlx5_lag mlx5_do_bond_work [mlx5_core]
pstate: 60400005 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : mlx5_del_flow_rules+0x24/0x2c0 [mlx5_core]
lr : mlx5_lag_destroy_definer+0x54/0x100 [mlx5_core]
sp : ffff800085fafb00
x29: ffff800085fafb00 x28: ffff0000da0c8000 x27: 0000000000000000
x26: ffff0000da0c8000 x25: ffff0000da0c8000 x24: ffff0000da0c8000
x23: ffff0000c31f81a0 x22: 0400000000000000 x21: ffff0000da0c8000
x20: 0000000000000000 x19: 0000000000000001 x18: 0000000000000000
x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: 0000ffff8b0c9350
x14: 0000000000000000 x13: ffff800081390d18 x12: ffff800081dc3cc0
x11: 0000000000000001 x10: 0000000000000b10 x9 : ffff80007ab7304c
x8 : ffff0000d00711f0 x7 : 0000000000000004 x6 : 0000000000000190
x5 : ffff00027edb3010 x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 : 0000000000000000
x2 : ffff0000d39b8000 x1 : ffff0000d39b8000 x0 : 0400000000000000
Call trace:
mlx5_del_flow_rules+0x24/0x2c0 [mlx5_core]
mlx5_lag_destroy_definer+0x54/0x100 [mlx5_core]
mlx5_lag_destroy_definers+0xa0/0x108 [mlx5_core]
mlx5_lag_port_sel_create+0x2d4/0x6f8 [mlx5_core]
mlx5_activate_lag+0x60c/0x6f8 [mlx5_core]
mlx5_do_bond_work+0x284/0x5c8 [mlx5_core]
process_one_work+0x170/0x3e0
worker_thread+0x2d8/0x3e0
kthread+0x11c/0x128
ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
Code: a9025bf5 aa0003f6 a90363f7 f90023f9 (f9400400)
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-01-31