Security Vulnerabilities - CVEs Published In May 2025
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
HID: pidff: Fix null pointer dereference in pidff_find_fields
This function triggered a null pointer dereference if used to search for
a report that isn't implemented on the device. This happened both for
optional and required reports alike.
The same logic was applied to pidff_find_special_field and although
pidff_init_fields should return an error earlier if one of the required
reports is missing, future modifications could change this logic and
resurface this possible null pointer dereference again.
LKML bug report:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAL-gK7f5=R0nrrQdPtaZZr1fd-cdAMbDMuZ_NLA8vM0SX+nGSw@mail.gmail.com
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-05-09
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ovl: don't allow datadir only
In theory overlayfs could support upper layer directly referring to a data
layer, but there's no current use case for this.
Originally, when data-only layers were introduced, this wasn't allowed,
only introduced by the "datadir+" feature, but without actually handling
this case, resulting in an Oops.
Fix by disallowing datadir without lowerdir.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-05-09
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: dsa: clean up FDB, MDB, VLAN entries on unbind
As explained in many places such as commit b117e1e8a86d ("net: dsa:
delete dsa_legacy_fdb_add and dsa_legacy_fdb_del"), DSA is written given
the assumption that higher layers have balanced additions/deletions.
As such, it only makes sense to be extremely vocal when those
assumptions are violated and the driver unbinds with entries still
present.
But Ido Schimmel points out a very simple situation where that is wrong:
https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/ZDazSM5UsPPjQuKr@shredder/
(also briefly discussed by me in the aforementioned commit).
Basically, while the bridge bypass operations are not something that DSA
explicitly documents, and for the majority of DSA drivers this API
simply causes them to go to promiscuous mode, that isn't the case for
all drivers. Some have the necessary requirements for bridge bypass
operations to do something useful - see dsa_switch_supports_uc_filtering().
Although in tools/testing/selftests/net/forwarding/local_termination.sh,
we made an effort to popularize better mechanisms to manage address
filters on DSA interfaces from user space - namely macvlan for unicast,
and setsockopt(IP_ADD_MEMBERSHIP) - through mtools - for multicast, the
fact is that 'bridge fdb add ... self static local' also exists as
kernel UAPI, and might be useful to someone, even if only for a quick
hack.
It seems counter-productive to block that path by implementing shim
.ndo_fdb_add and .ndo_fdb_del operations which just return -EOPNOTSUPP
in order to prevent the ndo_dflt_fdb_add() and ndo_dflt_fdb_del() from
running, although we could do that.
Accepting that cleanup is necessary seems to be the only option.
Especially since we appear to be coming back at this from a different
angle as well. Russell King is noticing that the WARN_ON() triggers even
for VLANs:
https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/Z_li8Bj8bD4-BYKQ@shell.armlinux.org.uk/
What happens in the bug report above is that dsa_port_do_vlan_del() fails,
then the VLAN entry lingers on, and then we warn on unbind and leak it.
This is not a straight revert of the blamed commit, but we now add an
informational print to the kernel log (to still have a way to see
that bugs exist), and some extra comments gathered from past years'
experience, to justify the logic.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-05-09
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: fix -ENOENT when deleting VLANs and MST is unsupported
Russell King reports that on the ZII dev rev B, deleting a bridge VLAN
from a user port fails with -ENOENT:
https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/Z_lQXNP0s5-IiJzd@shell.armlinux.org.uk/
This comes from mv88e6xxx_port_vlan_leave() -> mv88e6xxx_mst_put(),
which tries to find an MST entry in &chip->msts associated with the SID,
but fails and returns -ENOENT as such.
But we know that this chip does not support MST at all, so that is not
surprising. The question is why does the guard in mv88e6xxx_mst_put()
not exit early:
if (!sid)
return 0;
And the answer seems to be simple: the sid comes from vlan.sid which
supposedly was previously populated by mv88e6xxx_vtu_get().
But some chip->info->ops->vtu_getnext() implementations do not populate
vlan.sid, for example see mv88e6185_g1_vtu_getnext(). In that case,
later in mv88e6xxx_port_vlan_leave() we are using a garbage sid which is
just residual stack memory.
Testing for sid == 0 covers all cases of a non-bridge VLAN or a bridge
VLAN mapped to the default MSTI. For some chips, SID 0 is valid and
installed by mv88e6xxx_stu_setup(). A chip which does not support the
STU would implicitly only support mapping all VLANs to the default MSTI,
so although SID 0 is not valid, it would be sufficient, if we were to
zero-initialize the vlan structure, to fix the bug, due to the
coincidence that a test for vlan.sid == 0 already exists and leads to
the same (correct) behavior.
Another option which would be sufficient would be to add a test for
mv88e6xxx_has_stu() inside mv88e6xxx_mst_put(), symmetric to the one
which already exists in mv88e6xxx_mst_get(). But that placement means
the caller will have to dereference vlan.sid, which means it will access
uninitialized memory, which is not nice even if it ignores it later.
So we end up making both modifications, in order to not rely just on the
sid == 0 coincidence, but also to avoid having uninitialized structure
fields which might get temporarily accessed.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-05-09
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mlxbf-bootctl: use sysfs_emit_at() in secure_boot_fuse_state_show()
A warning is seen when running the latest kernel on a BlueField SOC:
[251.512704] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[251.512711] invalid sysfs_emit: buf:0000000003aa32ae
[251.512720] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 705264 at fs/sysfs/file.c:767 sysfs_emit+0xac/0xc8
The warning is triggered because the mlxbf-bootctl driver invokes
"sysfs_emit()" with a buffer pointer that is not aligned to the
start of the page. The driver should instead use "sysfs_emit_at()"
to support non-zero offsets into the destination buffer.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-05-09
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
RDMA/core: Silence oversized kvmalloc() warning
syzkaller triggered an oversized kvmalloc() warning.
Silence it by adding __GFP_NOWARN.
syzkaller log:
WARNING: CPU: 7 PID: 518 at mm/util.c:665 __kvmalloc_node_noprof+0x175/0x180
CPU: 7 UID: 0 PID: 518 Comm: c_repro Not tainted 6.11.0-rc6+ #6
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:__kvmalloc_node_noprof+0x175/0x180
RSP: 0018:ffffc90001e67c10 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000100 RBX: 0000000000000400 RCX: ffffffff8149d46b
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff8881030fae80 RDI: 0000000000000002
RBP: 000000712c800000 R08: 0000000000000100 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ffffc90001e67c10 R11: 0030ae0601000000 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 00000000ffffffff R15: 0000000000000000
FS: 00007fde79159740(0000) GS:ffff88813bdc0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000020000180 CR3: 0000000105eb4005 CR4: 00000000003706b0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
<TASK>
ib_umem_odp_get+0x1f6/0x390
mlx5_ib_reg_user_mr+0x1e8/0x450
ib_uverbs_reg_mr+0x28b/0x440
ib_uverbs_write+0x7d3/0xa30
vfs_write+0x1ac/0x6c0
ksys_write+0x134/0x170
? __sanitizer_cov_trace_pc+0x1c/0x50
do_syscall_64+0x50/0x110
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-05-09
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/xe/userptr: fix notifier vs folio deadlock
User is reporting what smells like notifier vs folio deadlock, where
migrate_pages_batch() on core kernel side is holding folio lock(s) and
then interacting with the mappings of it, however those mappings are
tied to some userptr, which means calling into the notifier callback and
grabbing the notifier lock. With perfect timing it looks possible that
the pages we pulled from the hmm fault can get sniped by
migrate_pages_batch() at the same time that we are holding the notifier
lock to mark the pages as accessed/dirty, but at this point we also want
to grab the folio locks(s) to mark them as dirty, but if they are
contended from notifier/migrate_pages_batch side then we deadlock since
folio lock won't be dropped until we drop the notifier lock.
Fortunately the mark_page_accessed/dirty is not really needed in the
first place it seems and should have already been done by hmm fault, so
just remove it.
(cherry picked from commit bd7c0cb695e87c0e43247be8196b4919edbe0e85)
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-05-09
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/xe: Use local fence in error path of xe_migrate_clear
The intent of the error path in xe_migrate_clear is to wait on locally
generated fence and then return. The code is waiting on m->fence which
could be the local fence but this is only stable under the job mutex
leading to a possible UAF. Fix code to wait on local fence.
(cherry picked from commit 762b7e95362170b3e13a8704f38d5e47eca4ba74)
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-05-09
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fbdev: omapfb: Add 'plane' value check
Function dispc_ovl_setup is not intended to work with the value OMAP_DSS_WB
of the enum parameter plane.
The value of this parameter is initialized in dss_init_overlays and in the
current state of the code it cannot take this value so it's not a real
problem.
For the purposes of defensive coding it wouldn't be superfluous to check
the parameter value, because some functions down the call stack process
this value correctly and some not.
For example, in dispc_ovl_setup_global_alpha it may lead to buffer
overflow.
Add check for this value.
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE static
analysis tool.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-05-09
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/amdgpu: handle amdgpu_cgs_create_device() errors in amd_powerplay_create()
Add error handling to propagate amdgpu_cgs_create_device() failures
to the caller. When amdgpu_cgs_create_device() fails, release hwmgr
and return -ENOMEM to prevent null pointer dereference.
[v1]->[v2]: Change error code from -EINVAL to -ENOMEM. Free hwmgr.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-05-09