Security Vulnerabilities - CVEs Published In March 2026
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
can: ems_usb: ems_usb_read_bulk_callback(): check the proper length of a message
When looking at the data in a USB urb, the actual_length is the size of
the buffer passed to the driver, not the transfer_buffer_length which is
set by the driver as the max size of the buffer.
When parsing the messages in ems_usb_read_bulk_callback() properly check
the size both at the beginning of parsing the message to make sure it is
big enough for the expected structure, and at the end of the message to
make sure we don't overflow past the end of the buffer for the next
message.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-03-25
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
pinctrl: equilibrium: fix warning trace on load
The callback functions 'eqbr_irq_mask()' and 'eqbr_irq_ack()' are also
called in the callback function 'eqbr_irq_mask_ack()'. This is done to
avoid source code duplication. The problem, is that in the function
'eqbr_irq_mask()' also calles the gpiolib function 'gpiochip_disable_irq()'
This generates the following warning trace in the log for every gpio on
load.
[ 6.088111] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 6.092440] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 1 at drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c:3810 gpiochip_disable_irq+0x39/0x50
[ 6.097847] Modules linked in:
[ 6.097847] CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G W 6.12.59+ #0
[ 6.097847] Tainted: [W]=WARN
[ 6.097847] RIP: 0010:gpiochip_disable_irq+0x39/0x50
[ 6.097847] Code: 39 c6 48 19 c0 21 c6 48 c1 e6 05 48 03 b2 38 03 00 00 48 81 fe 00 f0 ff ff 77 11 48 8b 46 08 f6 c4 02 74 06 f0 80 66 09 fb c3 <0f> 0b 90 0f 1f 40 00 c3 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40
[ 6.097847] RSP: 0000:ffffc9000000b830 EFLAGS: 00010046
[ 6.097847] RAX: 0000000000000045 RBX: ffff888001be02a0 RCX: 0000000000000008
[ 6.097847] RDX: ffff888001be9000 RSI: ffff888001b2dd00 RDI: ffff888001be02a0
[ 6.097847] RBP: ffffc9000000b860 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
[ 6.097847] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: ffff888001b2a154 R12: ffff888001be0514
[ 6.097847] R13: ffff888001be02a0 R14: 0000000000000008 R15: 0000000000000000
[ 6.097847] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff888041d80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 6.097847] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 6.097847] CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000000003030000 CR4: 00000000001026b0
[ 6.097847] Call Trace:
[ 6.097847] <TASK>
[ 6.097847] ? eqbr_irq_mask+0x63/0x70
[ 6.097847] ? no_action+0x10/0x10
[ 6.097847] eqbr_irq_mask_ack+0x11/0x60
In an other driver (drivers/pinctrl/starfive/pinctrl-starfive-jh7100.c) the
interrupt is not disabled here.
To fix this, do not call the 'eqbr_irq_mask()' and 'eqbr_irq_ack()'
function. Implement instead this directly without disabling the interrupts.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-03-25
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tracing: Add NULL pointer check to trigger_data_free()
If trigger_data_alloc() fails and returns NULL, event_hist_trigger_parse()
jumps to the out_free error path. While kfree() safely handles a NULL
pointer, trigger_data_free() does not. This causes a NULL pointer
dereference in trigger_data_free() when evaluating
data->cmd_ops->set_filter.
Fix the problem by adding a NULL pointer check to trigger_data_free().
The problem was found by an experimental code review agent based on
gemini-3.1-pro while reviewing backports into v6.18.y.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-03-25
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ipv6: fix NULL pointer deref in ip6_rt_get_dev_rcu()
l3mdev_master_dev_rcu() can return NULL when the slave device is being
un-slaved from a VRF. All other callers deal with this, but we lost
the fallback to loopback in ip6_rt_pcpu_alloc() -> ip6_rt_get_dev_rcu()
with commit 4832c30d5458 ("net: ipv6: put host and anycast routes on
device with address").
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000108-0x000000000000010f]
RIP: 0010:ip6_rt_pcpu_alloc (net/ipv6/route.c:1418)
Call Trace:
ip6_pol_route (net/ipv6/route.c:2318)
fib6_rule_lookup (net/ipv6/fib6_rules.c:115)
ip6_route_output_flags (net/ipv6/route.c:2607)
vrf_process_v6_outbound (drivers/net/vrf.c:437)
I was tempted to rework the un-slaving code to clear the flag first
and insert synchronize_rcu() before we remove the upper. But looks like
the explicit fallback to loopback_dev is an established pattern.
And I guess avoiding the synchronize_rcu() is nice, too.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-03-25
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nfsd: Fix cred ref leak in nfsd_nl_threads_set_doit().
syzbot reported memory leak of struct cred. [0]
nfsd_nl_threads_set_doit() passes get_current_cred() to
nfsd_svc(), but put_cred() is not called after that.
The cred is finally passed down to _svc_xprt_create(),
which calls get_cred() with the cred for struct svc_xprt.
The ownership of the refcount by get_current_cred() is not
transferred to anywhere and is just leaked.
nfsd_svc() is also called from write_threads(), but it does
not bump file->f_cred there.
nfsd_nl_threads_set_doit() is called from sendmsg() and
current->cred does not go away.
Let's use current_cred() in nfsd_nl_threads_set_doit().
[0]:
BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff888108b89480 (size 184):
comm "syz-executor", pid 5994, jiffies 4294943386
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace (crc 369454a7):
kmemleak_alloc_recursive include/linux/kmemleak.h:44 [inline]
slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4958 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:5263 [inline]
kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x412/0x580 mm/slub.c:5270
prepare_creds+0x22/0x600 kernel/cred.c:185
copy_creds+0x44/0x290 kernel/cred.c:286
copy_process+0x7a7/0x2870 kernel/fork.c:2086
kernel_clone+0xac/0x6e0 kernel/fork.c:2651
__do_sys_clone+0x7f/0xb0 kernel/fork.c:2792
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xa4/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-03-25
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
can: ucan: Fix infinite loop from zero-length messages
If a broken ucan device gets a message with the message length field set
to 0, then the driver will loop for forever in
ucan_read_bulk_callback(), hanging the system. If the length is 0, just
skip the message and go on to the next one.
This has been fixed in the kvaser_usb driver in the past in commit
0c73772cd2b8 ("can: kvaser_usb: leaf: Fix potential infinite loop in
command parsers"), so there must be some broken devices out there like
this somewhere.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-03-25
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: purge error queues in socket destructors
When TX timestamping is enabled via SO_TIMESTAMPING, SKBs may be queued
into sk_error_queue and will stay there until consumed. If userspace never
gets to read the timestamps, or if the controller is removed unexpectedly,
these SKBs will leak.
Fix by adding skb_queue_purge() calls for sk_error_queue in affected
bluetooth destructors. RFCOMM does not currently use sk_error_queue.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-03-25
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ASoC: SDCA: Add allocation failure check for Entity name
Currently find_sdca_entity_iot() can allocate a string for the
Entity name but it doesn't check if that allocation succeeded.
Add the missing NULL check after the allocation.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-03-25
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: annotate data-races around sk->sk_{data_ready,write_space}
skmsg (and probably other layers) are changing these pointers
while other cpus might read them concurrently.
Add corresponding READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() annotations
for UDP, TCP and AF_UNIX.
CVSS Score
4.7
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-03-25
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: ipv6: fix panic when IPv4 route references loopback IPv6 nexthop
When a standalone IPv6 nexthop object is created with a loopback device
(e.g., "ip -6 nexthop add id 100 dev lo"), fib6_nh_init() misclassifies
it as a reject route. This is because nexthop objects have no destination
prefix (fc_dst=::), causing fib6_is_reject() to match any loopback
nexthop. The reject path skips fib_nh_common_init(), leaving
nhc_pcpu_rth_output unallocated. If an IPv4 route later references this
nexthop, __mkroute_output() dereferences NULL nhc_pcpu_rth_output and
panics.
Simplify the check in fib6_nh_init() to only match explicit reject
routes (RTF_REJECT) instead of using fib6_is_reject(). The loopback
promotion heuristic in fib6_is_reject() is handled separately by
ip6_route_info_create_nh(). After this change, the three cases behave
as follows:
1. Explicit reject route ("ip -6 route add unreachable 2001:db8::/64"):
RTF_REJECT is set, enters reject path, skips fib_nh_common_init().
No behavior change.
2. Implicit loopback reject route ("ip -6 route add 2001:db8::/32 dev lo"):
RTF_REJECT is not set, takes normal path, fib_nh_common_init() is
called. ip6_route_info_create_nh() still promotes it to reject
afterward. nhc_pcpu_rth_output is allocated but unused, which is
harmless.
3. Standalone nexthop object ("ip -6 nexthop add id 100 dev lo"):
RTF_REJECT is not set, takes normal path, fib_nh_common_init() is
called. nhc_pcpu_rth_output is properly allocated, fixing the crash
when IPv4 routes reference this nexthop.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-03-25