Security Vulnerabilities - CVEs Published In October 2025
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ceph: fix race condition validating r_parent before applying state
Add validation to ensure the cached parent directory inode matches the
directory info in MDS replies. This prevents client-side race conditions
where concurrent operations (e.g. rename) cause r_parent to become stale
between request initiation and reply processing, which could lead to
applying state changes to incorrect directory inodes.
[ idryomov: folded a kerneldoc fixup and a follow-up fix from Alex to
move CEPH_CAP_PIN reference when r_parent is updated:
When the parent directory lock is not held, req->r_parent can become
stale and is updated to point to the correct inode. However, the
associated CEPH_CAP_PIN reference was not being adjusted. The
CEPH_CAP_PIN is a reference on an inode that is tracked for
accounting purposes. Moving this pin is important to keep the
accounting balanced. When the pin was not moved from the old parent
to the new one, it created two problems: The reference on the old,
stale parent was never released, causing a reference leak.
A reference for the new parent was never acquired, creating the risk
of a reference underflow later in ceph_mdsc_release_request(). This
patch corrects the logic by releasing the pin from the old parent and
acquiring it for the new parent when r_parent is switched. This
ensures reference accounting stays balanced. ]
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-10-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
i2c: rtl9300: ensure data length is within supported range
Add an explicit check for the xfer length to 'rtl9300_i2c_config_xfer'
to ensure the data length isn't within the supported range. In
particular a data length of 0 is not supported by the hardware and
causes unintended or destructive behaviour.
This limitation becomes obvious when looking at the register
documentation [1]. 4 bits are reserved for DATA_WIDTH and the value
of these 4 bits is used as N + 1, allowing a data length range of
1 <= len <= 16.
Affected by this is the SMBus Quick Operation which works with a data
length of 0. Passing 0 as the length causes an underflow of the value
due to:
(len - 1) & 0xf
and effectively specifying a transfer length of 16 via the registers.
This causes a 16-byte write operation instead of a Quick Write. For
example, on SFP modules without write-protected EEPROM this soft-bricks
them by overwriting some initial bytes.
For completeness, also add a quirk for the zero length.
[1] https://svanheule.net/realtek/longan/register/i2c_mst1_ctrl2
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-10-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: mt76: fix linked list corruption
Never leave scheduled wcid entries on the temporary on-stack list
CVSS Score
8.8
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2025-10-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: mt76: mt7996: add missing check for rx wcid entries
Non-station wcid entries must not be passed to the rx functions.
In case of the global wcid entry, it could even lead to corruption in the wcid
array due to pointer being casted to struct mt7996_sta_link using container_of.
CVSS Score
8.8
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2025-10-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
pcmcia: Add error handling for add_interval() in do_validate_mem()
In the do_validate_mem(), the call to add_interval() does not
handle errors. If kmalloc() fails in add_interval(), it could
result in a null pointer being inserted into the linked list,
leading to illegal memory access when sub_interval() is called
next.
This patch adds an error handling for the add_interval(). If
add_interval() returns an error, the function will return early
with the error code.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2025-10-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
spi: microchip-core-qspi: stop checking viability of op->max_freq in supports_op callback
In commit 13529647743d9 ("spi: microchip-core-qspi: Support per spi-mem
operation frequency switches") the logic for checking the viability of
op->max_freq in mchp_coreqspi_setup_clock() was copied into
mchp_coreqspi_supports_op(). Unfortunately, op->max_freq is not valid
when this function is called during probe but is instead zero.
Accordingly, baud_rate_val is calculated to be INT_MAX due to division
by zero, causing probe of the attached memory device to fail.
Seemingly spi-microchip-core-qspi was the only driver that had such a
modification made to its supports_op callback when the per_op_freq
capability was added, so just remove it to restore prior functionality.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-10-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ixgbe: fix incorrect map used in eee linkmode
incorrectly used ixgbe_lp_map in loops intended to populate the
supported and advertised EEE linkmode bitmaps based on ixgbe_ls_map.
This results in incorrect bit setting and potential out-of-bounds
access, since ixgbe_lp_map and ixgbe_ls_map have different sizes
and purposes.
ixgbe_lp_map[i] -> ixgbe_ls_map[i]
Use ixgbe_ls_map for supported and advertised linkmodes, and keep
ixgbe_lp_map usage only for link partner (lp_advertised) mapping.
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-10-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
dmaengine: qcom: bam_dma: Fix DT error handling for num-channels/ees
When we don't have a clock specified in the device tree, we have no way to
ensure the BAM is on. This is often the case for remotely-controlled or
remotely-powered BAM instances. In this case, we need to read num-channels
from the DT to have all the necessary information to complete probing.
However, at the moment invalid device trees without clock and without
num-channels still continue probing, because the error handling is missing
return statements. The driver will then later try to read the number of
channels from the registers. This is unsafe, because it relies on boot
firmware and lucky timing to succeed. Unfortunately, the lack of proper
error handling here has been abused for several Qualcomm SoCs upstream,
causing early boot crashes in several situations [1, 2].
Avoid these early crashes by erroring out when any of the required DT
properties are missing. Note that this will break some of the existing DTs
upstream (mainly BAM instances related to the crypto engine). However,
clearly these DTs have never been tested properly, since the error in the
kernel log was just ignored. It's safer to disable the crypto engine for
these broken DTBs.
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CY01EKQVWE36.B9X5TDXAREPF@fairphone.com/
[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230626145959.646747-1-krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org/
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-10-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
erofs: fix invalid algorithm for encoded extents
The current algorithm sanity checks do not properly apply to new
encoded extents.
Unify the algorithm check with Z_EROFS_COMPRESSION(_RUNTIME)_MAX
and ensure consistency with sbi->available_compr_algs.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-10-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
can: j1939: implement NETDEV_UNREGISTER notification handler
syzbot is reporting
unregister_netdevice: waiting for vcan0 to become free. Usage count = 2
problem, for j1939 protocol did not have NETDEV_UNREGISTER notification
handler for undoing changes made by j1939_sk_bind().
Commit 25fe97cb7620 ("can: j1939: move j1939_priv_put() into sk_destruct
callback") expects that a call to j1939_priv_put() can be unconditionally
delayed until j1939_sk_sock_destruct() is called. But we need to call
j1939_priv_put() against an extra ref held by j1939_sk_bind() call
(as a part of undoing changes made by j1939_sk_bind()) as soon as
NETDEV_UNREGISTER notification fires (i.e. before j1939_sk_sock_destruct()
is called via j1939_sk_release()). Otherwise, the extra ref on "struct
j1939_priv" held by j1939_sk_bind() call prevents "struct net_device" from
dropping the usage count to 1; making it impossible for
unregister_netdevice() to continue.
[mkl: remove space in front of label]
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-10-01