Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 5.17.9 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: brcmfmac: Fix error pointer dereference
The function brcmf_chip_add_core() can return an error pointer and is
not checked. Add checks for error pointer.
Detected by Smatch:
drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/chip.c:1010 brcmf_chip_recognition() error:
'core' dereferencing possible ERR_PTR()
drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/chip.c:1013 brcmf_chip_recognition() error:
'core' dereferencing possible ERR_PTR()
drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/chip.c:1016 brcmf_chip_recognition() error:
'core' dereferencing possible ERR_PTR()
drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/chip.c:1019 brcmf_chip_recognition() error:
'core' dereferencing possible ERR_PTR()
drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/chip.c:1022 brcmf_chip_recognition() error:
'core' dereferencing possible ERR_PTR()
[add missing wifi: prefix]
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2026-06-24
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/sched: cls_fw: fix NULL dereference of "old" filters before change()
Like pointed out by Sashiko [1], since commit ed76f5edccc9 ("net: sched:
protect filter_chain list with filter_chain_lock mutex") TC filters are
added to a shared block and published to datapath before their ->change()
function is called. This is a problem for cls_fw: an invalid filter
created with the "old" method can still classify some packets before it
is destroyed by the validation logic added by Xiang.
Therefore, insisting with repeated runs of the following script:
# ip link add dev crash0 type dummy
# ip link set dev crash0 up
# mausezahn crash0 -c 100000 -P 10 \
> -A 4.3.2.1 -B 1.2.3.4 -t udp "dp=1234" -q &
# sleep 1
# tc qdisc add dev crash0 egress_block 1 clsact
# tc filter add block 1 protocol ip prio 1 matchall \
> action skbedit mark 65536 continue
# tc filter add block 1 protocol ip prio 2 fw
# ip link del dev crash0
can still make fw_classify() hit the WARN_ON() in [2]:
WARNING: ./include/net/pkt_cls.h:88 at fw_classify+0x244/0x250 [cls_fw], CPU#18: mausezahn/1399
Modules linked in: cls_fw(E) act_skbedit(E)
CPU: 18 UID: 0 PID: 1399 Comm: mausezahn Tainted: G E 7.0.0-rc6-virtme #17 PREEMPT(full)
Tainted: [E]=UNSIGNED_MODULE
Hardware name: Red Hat KVM, BIOS 1.16.3-2.el9 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:fw_classify+0x244/0x250 [cls_fw]
Code: 5c 49 c7 45 00 00 00 00 00 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 cc cc cc cc 5b b8 ff ff ff ff 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 cc cc cc cc 90 <0f> 0b 90 eb a0 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90
RSP: 0018:ffffd1b7026bf8a8 EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: ffff8c5ac9c60800 RBX: ffff8c5ac99322c0 RCX: 0000000000000004
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffff8c5b74d7a000 RDI: ffff8c5ac8284f40
RBP: ffffd1b7026bf8d0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffd1b7026bf9b0
R10: 00000000ffffffff R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000010000
R13: ffffd1b7026bf930 R14: ffff8c5ac8284f40 R15: 0000000000000000
FS: 00007fca40c37740(0000) GS:ffff8c5b74d7a000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fca40e822a0 CR3: 0000000005ca0001 CR4: 0000000000172ef0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
tcf_classify+0x17d/0x5c0
tc_run+0x9d/0x150
__dev_queue_xmit+0x2ab/0x14d0
ip_finish_output2+0x340/0x8f0
ip_output+0xa4/0x250
raw_sendmsg+0x147d/0x14b0
__sys_sendto+0x1cc/0x1f0
__x64_sys_sendto+0x24/0x30
do_syscall_64+0x126/0xf80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fca40e822ba
Code: d8 64 89 02 48 c7 c0 ff ff ff ff eb b8 0f 1f 00 f3 0f 1e fa 41 89 ca 64 8b 04 25 18 00 00 00 85 c0 75 15 b8 2c 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 7e c3 0f 1f 44 00 00 41 54 48 83 ec 30 44 89
RSP: 002b:00007ffc248a42c8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002c
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000055ef233289d0 RCX: 00007fca40e822ba
RDX: 000000000000001e RSI: 000055ef23328c30 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 000055ef233289d0 R08: 00007ffc248a42d0 R09: 0000000000000010
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 000000000000001e
R13: 00000000000186a0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 00007fca41043000
</TASK>
irq event stamp: 1045778
hardirqs last enabled at (1045784): [<ffffffff864ec042>] __up_console_sem+0x52/0x60
hardirqs last disabled at (1045789): [<ffffffff864ec027>] __up_console_sem+0x37/0x60
softirqs last enabled at (1045426): [<ffffffff874d48c7>] __alloc_skb+0x207/0x260
softirqs last disabled at (1045434): [<ffffffff874fe8f8>] __dev_queue_xmit+0x78/0x14d0
Then, because of the value in the packet's mark, dereference on 'q->handle'
with NULL 'q' occurs:
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000038
[...]
RIP: 0010:fw_classify+0x1fe/0x250 [cls_fw]
[...]
Skip "old-style" classification on shared blocks, so that the NULL
dereference is fixed and WARN_ON() is not hit anymore in the short
lifetime of invalid cls_fw "old-style" filters.
[1] https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/2
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CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2026-06-24
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: hamradio: 6pack: fix uninit-value in sixpack_receive_buf
sixpack_receive_buf() does not properly skip bytes with TTY error flags.
The while loop iterates through the flags buffer but never advances the
data pointer (cp), and passes the original count (including error bytes)
to sixpack_decode(). This causes sixpack_decode() to process bytes that
should have been skipped due to TTY errors. The TTY layer does not
guarantee that cp[i] holds a meaningful value when fp[i] is set, so
passing those positions to sixpack_decode() results in KMSAN reporting
an uninit-value read.
Fix this by processing bytes one at a time, advancing cp on each
iteration, and only passing valid (non-error) bytes to sixpack_decode().
This matches the pattern used by slip_receive_buf() and
mkiss_receive_buf() for the same purpose.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2026-06-24
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bpf: Fix RCU stall in bpf_fd_array_map_clear()
Add a missing cond_resched() in bpf_fd_array_map_clear() loop.
For PROG_ARRAY maps with many entries this loop calls
prog_array_map_poke_run() per entry which can be expensive, and
without yielding this can cause RCU stalls under load:
rcu: Stack dump where RCU GP kthread last ran:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 30932 Comm: kworker/0:2 Not tainted 6.14.0-13195-g967e8def1100 #2 PREEMPT(undef)
Workqueue: events prog_array_map_clear_deferred
RIP: 0010:write_comp_data+0x38/0x90 kernel/kcov.c:246
Call Trace:
<TASK>
prog_array_map_poke_run+0x77/0x380 kernel/bpf/arraymap.c:1096
__fd_array_map_delete_elem+0x197/0x310 kernel/bpf/arraymap.c:925
bpf_fd_array_map_clear kernel/bpf/arraymap.c:1000 [inline]
prog_array_map_clear_deferred+0x119/0x1b0 kernel/bpf/arraymap.c:1141
process_one_work+0x898/0x19d0 kernel/workqueue.c:3238
process_scheduled_works kernel/workqueue.c:3319 [inline]
worker_thread+0x770/0x10b0 kernel/workqueue.c:3400
kthread+0x465/0x880 kernel/kthread.c:464
ret_from_fork+0x4d/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:153
ret_from_fork_asm+0x19/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
</TASK>
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2026-06-24
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: bcmgenet: fix racing timeout handler
The bcmgenet_timeout handler tries to take down all tx queues when
a single queue times out. This is over zealous and causes many race
conditions with queues that are still chugging along. Instead lets
only restart the timed out queue.
CVSS Score
9.8
EPSS Score
0.004
Published
2026-06-24
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: bcmgenet: fix off-by-one in bcmgenet_put_txcb
The write_ptr points to the next open tx_cb. We want to return the
tx_cb that gets rewinded, so we must rewind the pointer first then
return the tx_cb that it points to. That way the txcb can be correctly
cleaned up.
CVSS Score
9.8
EPSS Score
0.004
Published
2026-06-24
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bpf: Fix OOB in pcpu_init_value
An out-of-bounds read occurs when copying element from a
BPF_MAP_TYPE_CGROUP_STORAGE map to another pcpu map with the
same value_size that is not rounded up to 8 bytes.
The issue happens when:
1. A CGROUP_STORAGE map is created with value_size not aligned to
8 bytes (e.g., 4 bytes)
2. A pcpu map is created with the same value_size (e.g., 4 bytes)
3. Update element in 2 with data in 1
pcpu_init_value assumes that all sources are rounded up to 8 bytes,
and invokes copy_map_value_long to make a data copy, However, the
assumption doesn't stand since there are some cases where the source
may not be rounded up to 8 bytes, e.g., CGROUP_STORAGE, skb->data.
the verifier verifies exactly the size that the source claims, not
the size rounded up to 8 bytes by kernel, an OOB happens when the
source has only 4 bytes while the copy size(4) is rounded up to 8.
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-06-24
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bpf: Fix same-register dst/src OOB read and pointer leak in sock_ops
When a BPF sock_ops program accesses ctx fields with dst_reg == src_reg,
the SOCK_OPS_GET_SK() and SOCK_OPS_GET_FIELD() macros fail to zero the
destination register in the !fullsock / !locked_tcp_sock path.
Both macros borrow a temporary register to check is_fullsock /
is_locked_tcp_sock when dst_reg == src_reg, because dst_reg holds the
ctx pointer. When the check is false (e.g., TCP_NEW_SYN_RECV state with
a request_sock), dst_reg should be zeroed but is not, leaving the stale
ctx pointer:
- SOCK_OPS_GET_SK: dst_reg retains the ctx pointer, passes NULL checks
as PTR_TO_SOCKET_OR_NULL, and can be used as a bogus socket pointer,
leading to stack-out-of-bounds access in helpers like
bpf_skc_to_tcp6_sock().
- SOCK_OPS_GET_FIELD: dst_reg retains the ctx pointer which the
verifier believes is a SCALAR_VALUE, leaking a kernel pointer.
Fix both macros by:
- Changing JMP_A(1) to JMP_A(2) in the fullsock path to skip the
added instruction.
- Adding BPF_MOV64_IMM(si->dst_reg, 0) after the temp register
restore in the !fullsock path, placed after the restore because
dst_reg == src_reg means we need src_reg intact to read ctx->temp.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-06-24
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
sctp: disable BH before calling udp_tunnel_xmit_skb()
udp_tunnel_xmit_skb() / udp_tunnel6_xmit_skb() are expected to run with
BH disabled. After commit 6f1a9140ecda ("add xmit recursion limit to
tunnel xmit functions"), on the path:
udp(6)_tunnel_xmit_skb() -> ip(6)tunnel_xmit()
dev_xmit_recursion_inc()/dec() must stay balanced on the same CPU.
Without local_bh_disable(), the context may move between CPUs, which can
break the inc/dec pairing. This may lead to incorrect recursion level
detection and cause packets to be dropped in ip(6)_tunnel_xmit() or
__dev_queue_xmit().
Fix it by disabling BH around both IPv4 and IPv6 SCTP UDP xmit paths.
In my testing, after enabling the SCTP over UDP:
# ip net exec ha sysctl -w net.sctp.udp_port=9899
# ip net exec ha sysctl -w net.sctp.encap_port=9899
# ip net exec hb sysctl -w net.sctp.udp_port=9899
# ip net exec hb sysctl -w net.sctp.encap_port=9899
# ip net exec ha iperf3 -s
- without this patch:
# ip net exec hb iperf3 -c 192.168.0.1 --sctp
[ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 37.2 MBytes 31.2 Mbits/sec sender
[ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 37.1 MBytes 31.1 Mbits/sec receiver
- with this patch:
# ip net exec hb iperf3 -c 192.168.0.1 --sctp
[ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 3.14 GBytes 2.69 Gbits/sec sender
[ 5] 0.00-10.00 sec 3.14 GBytes 2.69 Gbits/sec receiver
CVSS Score
7.5
EPSS Score
0.004
Published
2026-06-24
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: l2cap: Add missing chan lock in l2cap_ecred_reconf_rsp
l2cap_ecred_reconf_rsp() calls l2cap_chan_del() without holding
l2cap_chan_lock(). Every other l2cap_chan_del() caller in the file
acquires the lock first. A remote BLE device can send a crafted
L2CAP ECRED reconfiguration response to corrupt the channel list
while another thread is iterating it.
Add l2cap_chan_hold() and l2cap_chan_lock() before l2cap_chan_del(),
and l2cap_chan_unlock() and l2cap_chan_put() after, matching the
pattern used in l2cap_ecred_conn_rsp() and l2cap_conn_del().
CVSS Score
8.8
EPSS Score
0.003
Published
2026-06-24