Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 5.17.4 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
gpio: rockchip: teardown bugs and resource leaks
Address several teardown issues and resource leaks in the driver's remove
path and error handling:
1. Debounce clock reference leak: The debounce clock (bank->db_clk) is
obtained using of_clk_get() which increments the clock's reference
count, but clk_put() is never called. Register a devm action to
cleanly release it on unbind. Note that of_clk_get(..., 1) remains
necessary over devm_clk_get() because the DT binding does not define
clock-names, precluding name-based lookup.
2. Unregistered chained IRQ handler: The chained IRQ handler is not
disconnected in remove(). If a stray interrupt fires after the driver
is removed, the kernel attempts to execute a stale handler, leading
to a panic. Fix this by clearing the handler in remove().
3. IRQ domain leak: The linear IRQ domain and its generic chips are
allocated manually during probe but never removed. Remove the IRQ
domain during driver teardown to free the associated generic chips
and mappings.
[Bartosz: don't emit an error message on devres allocation failure]
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-07-24
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
usb: gadget: net2280: Fix double free in probe error path
usb_initialize_gadget() installs gadget_release() as the release
callback for the embedded gadget device. The struct net2280 instance is
therefore released through gadget_release() when the gadget device's last
reference is dropped.
The probe error path calls net2280_remove(), which tears down the
partially initialized device and drops the gadget reference with
usb_put_gadget(). Calling kfree(dev) afterwards can free the same object
again.
Drop the explicit kfree() and let the gadget device release callback
handle the final free. This issue was found by a static analysis tool
I am developing.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-07-24
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ASoC: codecs: simple-mux: Fix enum control bounds check
simple_mux_control_put() rejects values greater than e->items, but
enum control values are zero based. For the two-entry mux used by this
driver, valid values are 0 and 1, so value 2 must be rejected as well.
Accepting e->items can store an invalid mux state, pass it to the GPIO
setter, and pass it on to the DAPM mux update path where it is used as
an index into the enum text array.
Use the same >= e->items check used by the ASoC enum helpers.
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-07-24
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/msm/dsi: don't dump registers past the mapped region
On DSI 6G platforms the IO address space is internally adjusted by
io_offset. Later this adjusted address might be used for memory dumping.
However the size that is used for memory dumping isn't adjusted to
account for the io_offset, leading to the potential access to the
unmapped region. Lower ctrl_size by the io_offset value to prevent
access past the mapped area.
msm_disp_snapshot_add_block+0x1d4/0x3c8 [msm] (P)
msm_dsi_host_snapshot+0x4c/0x78 [msm]
msm_dsi_snapshot+0x28/0x50 [msm]
msm_disp_snapshot_capture_state+0x74/0x140 [msm]
msm_disp_snapshot_state_sync+0x60/0x90 [msm]
_msm_disp_snapshot_work+0x30/0x90 [msm]
kthread_worker_fn+0xdc/0x460
kthread+0x120/0x140
Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/721747/
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-07-24
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tty: serial: pch_uart: add check for dma_alloc_coherent()
Add a check for dma_alloc_coherent() failure to prevent a potential
NULL pointer dereference in dma_handle_rx(). Properly release DMA
channels and the PCI device reference using a goto ladder if the
allocation fails.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-07-24
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Input: elan_i2c - validate firmware size before use
Ensure that the firmware file is large enough to contain the expected
number of pages and the signature (which resides at the end of the
firmware blob) before accessing them to prevent potential out-of-bounds
reads.
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-07-24
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
octeontx2-af: CGX: add bounds check to cgx_speed_mbps index
cgx_speed_mbps has 13 elements but RESP_LINKSTAT_SPEED can yield values
0-15. If it returns a value >= 13, this causes an out-of-bounds array
access. Add a bounds check and default to speed 0 if the index is out of
range.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-07-24
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
octeontx2-pf: avoid double free of pool->stack on AQ init failure
otx2_pool_aq_init() frees pool->stack when mailbox sync or retry
allocation fails, but leaves the pointer unchanged. Later,
otx2_sq_aura_pool_init() unwinds the partial setup through
otx2_aura_pool_free(), which frees pool->stack again. The CN20K-specific
cn20k_pool_aq_init() implementation has the same bug in
its corresponding error path.
Set pool->stack to NULL immediately after the local free so the shared
cleanup path does not free the same stack again while cleaning up
partially initialized pool state.
The bug was first flagged by an experimental analysis tool we are
developing for kernel memory-management bugs while analyzing
v6.13-rc1. The tool is still under development and is not yet publicly
available. Manual inspection confirms that the bug is still present in
v7.1-rc3.
Runtime validation was not performed because reproducing this path
requires OcteonTX2/CN20K hardware.
CVSS Score
7.0
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-07-24
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
batman-adv: bla: fix report_work leak on backbone_gw purge
batadv_bla_purge_backbone_gw() removes stale backbone gateway entries,
but fails to properly handle their associated report_work:
- If report_work is running, the purge must wait for it to finish before
freeing the backbone_gw, otherwise the worker may access freed memory
(e.g. bat_priv).
- If report_work is pending, the purge must cancel it and release the
reference held for that pending work item.
The previous implementation called hlist_for_each_entry_safe() inside a
spin_lock_bh() section, but cancel_work_sync() may sleep and therefore
cannot be called from within a spinlock-protected region.
Restructure the loop to handle one entry per spinlock critical section:
acquire the lock, find the next entry to purge, remove it from the hash
list, then release the lock before calling cancel_work_sync() and
dropping the hash_entry reference. Repeat until no more entries require
purging.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-07-24
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/amd/display: Validate payload length and link_index in dc_process_dmub_aux_transfer_async
[Why&How]
dc_process_dmub_aux_transfer_async() copies payload->length bytes into a
16-byte stack buffer (dpaux.data[16]) guarded only by an ASSERT(), which
is a no-op in release builds. If a caller ever passes length > 16 this
results in a stack buffer overflow via memcpy.
Additionally, link_index is used to dereference dc->links[] without
bounds checking against dc->link_count, risking an out-of-bounds access.
Replace the ASSERT with a hard runtime check that returns false when
payload->length exceeds the destination buffer size, and add a bounds
check for link_index before it is used.
(cherry picked from commit ba4caa9fecdf7a38f98c878ad05a8a64148b6881)
CVSS Score
7.0
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-07-24