Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 2.0 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: lpfc: Fix use-after-free KFENCE violation during sysfs firmware write
During the sysfs firmware write process, a use-after-free read warning is
logged from the lpfc_wr_object() routine:
BUG: KFENCE: use-after-free read in lpfc_wr_object+0x235/0x310 [lpfc]
Use-after-free read at 0x0000000000cf164d (in kfence-#111):
lpfc_wr_object+0x235/0x310 [lpfc]
lpfc_write_firmware.cold+0x206/0x30d [lpfc]
lpfc_sli4_request_firmware_update+0xa6/0x100 [lpfc]
lpfc_request_firmware_upgrade_store+0x66/0xb0 [lpfc]
kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x121/0x1b0
new_sync_write+0x11c/0x1b0
vfs_write+0x1ef/0x280
ksys_write+0x5f/0xe0
do_syscall_64+0x59/0x90
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
The driver accessed wr_object pointer data, which was initialized into
mailbox payload memory, after the mailbox object was released back to the
mailbox pool.
Fix by moving the mailbox free calls to the end of the routine ensuring
that we don't reference internal mailbox memory after release.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ext4: add bounds checking in get_max_inline_xattr_value_size()
Normally the extended attributes in the inode body would have been
checked when the inode is first opened, but if someone is writing to
the block device while the file system is mounted, it's possible for
the inode table to get corrupted. Add bounds checking to avoid
reading beyond the end of allocated memory if this happens.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
RDMA/mlx5: Return the firmware result upon destroying QP/RQ
Previously when destroying a QP/RQ, the result of the firmware
destruction function was ignored and upper layers weren't informed
about the failure.
Which in turn could lead to various problems since when upper layer
isn't aware of the failure it continues its operation thinking that the
related QP/RQ was successfully destroyed while it actually wasn't,
which could lead to the below kernel WARN.
Currently, we return the correct firmware destruction status to upper
layers which in case of the RQ would be mlx5_ib_destroy_wq() which
was already capable of handling RQ destruction failure or in case of
a QP to destroy_qp_common(), which now would actually warn upon qp
destruction failure.
WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 995 at drivers/infiniband/core/rdma_core.c:940 uverbs_destroy_ufile_hw+0xcb/0xe0 [ib_uverbs]
Modules linked in: xt_conntrack xt_MASQUERADE nf_conntrack_netlink nfnetlink xt_addrtype iptable_nat nf_nat br_netfilter rpcrdma rdma_ucm ib_iser libiscsi scsi_transport_iscsi rdma_cm ib_umad ib_ipoib iw_cm ib_cm mlx5_ib ib_uverbs ib_core overlay mlx5_core fuse
CPU: 3 PID: 995 Comm: python3 Not tainted 5.16.0-rc5+ #1
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:uverbs_destroy_ufile_hw+0xcb/0xe0 [ib_uverbs]
Code: 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e e9 44 34 f0 e0 48 89 df e8 4c 77 ff ff 49 8b 86 10 01 00 00 48 85 c0 74 a1 4c 89 e7 ff d0 eb 9a 0f 0b eb c1 <0f> 0b be 04 00 00 00 48 89 df e8 b6 f6 ff ff e9 75 ff ff ff 90 0f
RSP: 0018:ffff8881533e3e78 EFLAGS: 00010287
RAX: ffff88811b2cf3e0 RBX: ffff888106209700 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: ffff888106209780 RSI: ffff8881533e3d30 RDI: ffff888109b101a0
RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: ffff888127cb381c R09: 0de9890000000009
R10: ffff888127cb3800 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff888106209780
R13: ffff888106209750 R14: ffff888100f20660 R15: 0000000000000000
FS: 00007f8be353b740(0000) GS:ffff88852c980000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f8bd5b117c0 CR3: 000000012cd8a004 CR4: 0000000000370ea0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
<TASK>
ib_uverbs_close+0x1a/0x90 [ib_uverbs]
__fput+0x82/0x230
task_work_run+0x59/0x90
exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x138/0x140
syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x1d/0x50
? __x64_sys_close+0xe/0x40
do_syscall_64+0x4a/0x90
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
RIP: 0033:0x7f8be3ae0abb
Code: 03 00 00 00 0f 05 48 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 41 c3 48 83 ec 18 89 7c 24 0c e8 83 43 f9 ff 8b 7c 24 0c 41 89 c0 b8 03 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 35 44 89 c7 89 44 24 0c e8 c1 43 f9 ff 8b 44
RSP: 002b:00007ffdb51909c0 EFLAGS: 00000293 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000003
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000557bb7f7c020 RCX: 00007f8be3ae0abb
RDX: 0000557bb7c74010 RSI: 0000557bb7f14ca0 RDI: 0000000000000005
RBP: 0000557bb7fbd598 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000293 R12: 0000557bb7fbd5b8
R13: 0000557bb7fbd5a8 R14: 0000000000001000 R15: 0000557bb7f7c020
</TASK>
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/client: Fix memory leak in drm_client_modeset_probe
When a new mode is set to modeset->mode, the previous mode should be freed.
This fixes the following kmemleak report:
drm_mode_duplicate+0x45/0x220 [drm]
drm_client_modeset_probe+0x944/0xf50 [drm]
__drm_fb_helper_initial_config_and_unlock+0xb4/0x2c0 [drm_kms_helper]
drm_fbdev_client_hotplug+0x2bc/0x4d0 [drm_kms_helper]
drm_client_register+0x169/0x240 [drm]
ast_pci_probe+0x142/0x190 [ast]
local_pci_probe+0xdc/0x180
work_for_cpu_fn+0x4e/0xa0
process_one_work+0x8b7/0x1540
worker_thread+0x70a/0xed0
kthread+0x29f/0x340
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ALSA: hda: fix a possible null-pointer dereference due to data race in snd_hdac_regmap_sync()
The variable codec->regmap is often protected by the lock
codec->regmap_lock when is accessed. However, it is accessed without
holding the lock when is accessed in snd_hdac_regmap_sync():
if (codec->regmap)
In my opinion, this may be a harmful race, because if codec->regmap is
set to NULL right after the condition is checked, a null-pointer
dereference can occur in the called function regcache_sync():
map->lock(map->lock_arg); --> Line 360 in drivers/base/regmap/regcache.c
To fix this possible null-pointer dereference caused by data race, the
mutex_lock coverage is extended to protect the if statement as well as the
function call to regcache_sync().
[ Note: the lack of the regmap_lock itself is harmless for the current
codec driver implementations, as snd_hdac_regmap_sync() is only for
PM runtime resume that is prohibited during the codec probe.
But the change makes the whole code more consistent, so it's merged
as is -- tiwai ]
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ubifs: Free memory for tmpfile name
When opening a ubifs tmpfile on an encrypted directory, function
fscrypt_setup_filename allocates memory for the name that is to be
stored in the directory entry, but after the name has been copied to the
directory entry inode, the memory is not freed.
When running kmemleak on it we see that it is registered as a leak. The
report below is triggered by a simple program 'tmpfile' just opening a
tmpfile:
unreferenced object 0xffff88810178f380 (size 32):
comm "tmpfile", pid 509, jiffies 4294934744 (age 1524.742s)
backtrace:
__kmem_cache_alloc_node
__kmalloc
fscrypt_setup_filename
ubifs_tmpfile
vfs_tmpfile
path_openat
Free this memory after it has been copied to the inode.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
misc: vmw_balloon: fix memory leak with using debugfs_lookup()
When calling debugfs_lookup() the result must have dput() called on it,
otherwise the memory will leak over time. To make things simpler, just
call debugfs_lookup_and_remove() instead which handles all of the logic at
once.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: mac80211: check S1G action frame size
Before checking the action code, check that it even
exists in the frame.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cacheinfo: Fix shared_cpu_map to handle shared caches at different levels
The cacheinfo sets up the shared_cpu_map by checking whether the caches
with the same index are shared between CPUs. However, this will trigger
slab-out-of-bounds access if the CPUs do not have the same cache hierarchy.
Another problem is the mismatched shared_cpu_map when the shared cache does
not have the same index between CPUs.
CPU0 I D L3
index 0 1 2 x
^ ^ ^ ^
index 0 1 2 3
CPU1 I D L2 L3
This patch checks each cache is shared with all caches on other CPUs.
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: pci: tw68: Fix null-ptr-deref bug in buf prepare and finish
When the driver calls tw68_risc_buffer() to prepare the buffer, the
function call dma_alloc_coherent may fail, resulting in a empty buffer
buf->cpu. Later when we free the buffer or access the buffer, null ptr
deref is triggered.
This bug is similar to the following one:
https://git.linuxtv.org/media_stage.git/commit/?id=2b064d91440b33fba5b452f2d1b31f13ae911d71.
We believe the bug can be also dynamically triggered from user side.
Similarly, we fix this by checking the return value of tw68_risc_buffer()
and the value of buf->cpu before buffer free.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-15