Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 6.12.23 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
batman-adv: tt: fix negative last_changeset_len
batadv_piv_tt::last_changeset_len len was declared as s16, but the field is
never intended to hold a negative value. When a value greater than 32767 is
assigned, it wraps to a negative signed integer.
In batadv_send_my_tt_response(), last_changeset_len is temporarily widened
to s32. The incorrectly negative s16 value propagates into the s32, causing
batadv_tt_prepare_tvlv_local_data() to allocate a full sized buffer but
populates only a small portion of it with the collected changeset. All
remaining bits are kept uninitialized.
Using an u16 avoids this type confusion and ensures that no (negative) sign
extension is performed in batadv_send_my_tt_response().
CVSS Score
9.8
EPSS Score
0.006
Published
2026-07-19
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
batman-adv: tt: avoid empty VLAN responses
The commit 16116dac2339 ("batman-adv: prevent TT request storms by not
sending inconsistent TT TLVLs") added checks to the local (direct) TT
response code. But the response can also be done indirectly by another node
using the global TT state. To avoid such inconsistency states reported in
the original fix, also avoid sending empty VLANs for replies from the
global TT state.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-07-19
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
batman-adv: tt: fix TOCTOU race for reported vlans
The local TT based TVLV is generated by first checking the number of VLANs
which have at least one TT entry. A new buffer with the correct size for
the VLANs is then allocated. Only then, the list of VLANs s used to fill
the VLAN entries in the buffer. During this time, the meshif_vlan_list_lock
is held. But the actual number of TT entries of each VLAN can still
increase during this time - just not the number of VLANs in the list.
But the prefilter used in the buffer size calculation might still cause an
increase of the number of VLANs which need to be stored. Simply because a
VLAN might now suddenly have at least one entry when it had none in the
pre-alloc check - and then needs to occupy space which was not allocated.
It is better to overestimate the buffer size at the beginning and then fill
the buffer only with the VLANs which are not empty.
CVSS Score
9.8
EPSS Score
0.004
Published
2026-07-19
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: bridge: eb_tables: close module init race
sashiko reports for unrelated patch:
Does the core ebtables initialization in ebtables.c suffer from a similar race?
Once nf_register_sockopt() completes, the sockopts are exposed globally.
sockopt has to be registered last, just like in ip/ip6/arptables.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-07-19
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: ebtables: move to two-stage removal scheme
Like previous patches for x_tables, follow same pattern in ebtables.
We can't reuse xt helpers: ebt_table struct layout is incompatible.
table->ops assignment is now done while still holding the ebt mutex
to make sure we never expose partially-filled table struct.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-07-19
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: x_tables: add and use xtables_unregister_table_exit
Previous change added xtables_unregister_table_pre_exit to detach the
table from the packetpath and to unlink it from the active table list.
In case of rmmod, userspace that is doing set/getsockopt for this table
will not be able to re-instantiate the table:
1. The larval table has been removed already
2. existing instantiated table is no longer on the xt pernet table list.
This adds the second stage helper:
unlink the table from the dying list, free the hook ops (if any) and do
the audit notification. It replaces xt_unregister_table().
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-07-19
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: x_tables: allocate hook ops while under mutex
arp/ip(6)t_register_table() add the table to the per-netns list via
xt_register_table() before allocating the per-netns hook ops copy
via kmemdup_array(). This leaves a window where the table is
visible in the list with ops=NULL.
If the pernet exit happens runs concurrently the pre_exit callback finds
the table via xt_find_table() and passes the NULL ops pointer to
nf_unregister_net_hooks(), causing a NULL dereference:
general protection fault in nf_unregister_net_hooks+0xbc/0x150
RIP: nf_unregister_net_hooks (net/netfilter/core.c:613)
Call Trace:
ipt_unregister_table_pre_exit
iptable_mangle_net_pre_exit
ops_pre_exit_list
cleanup_net
Fix by moving the ops allocation into the xtables core so the table is
never in the list without valid ops. Also ensure the table is no longer
processing packets before its torn down on error unwind.
nf_register_net_hooks might have published at least one hook; call
synchronize_rcu() if there was an error.
audit log register message gets deferred until all operations have
passed, this avoids need to emit another ureg message in case of
error unwinding.
Based on earlier patch by Tristan Madani.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-07-19
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
riscv: Fix register corruption from uninitialized cregs on error
compat_riscv_gpr_set() calls cregs_to_regs() unconditionally, even when
user_regset_copyin() fails. Since cregs is an uninitialized stack
variable, a copyin failure causes uninitialized stack data to be written
into the target task's pt_regs, corrupting its register state and
potentially leaking kernel stack contents.
compat_restore_sigcontext() has the same issue: it calls cregs_to_regs()
even when __copy_from_user() fails, leading to the same corruption of
the signal-returning task's register state on error.
Only call cregs_to_regs() when the user copy succeeds.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-07-19
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
hwmon: (pmbus/adm1266) reject short block-read responses in the GPIO accessors
adm1266_gpio_get() and adm1266_gpio_get_multiple() both compose the
pin-status word as
pins_status = read_buf[0] + (read_buf[1] << 8);
right after i2c_smbus_read_block_data(), guarding only against an
error return. A well-behaved device returns 2 bytes for
GPIO_STATUS/PDIO_STATUS, but the helper happily reports a 0- or
1-byte response too. If the device returns 0 bytes, both read_buf
slots are uninitialized stack memory; if it returns 1 byte, read_buf[1]
is.
The composed value then flows through set_bit() into the caller's
*bits in adm1266_gpio_get_multiple(), or into the return value of
adm1266_gpio_get(), and ends up in userspace via gpiolib (sysfs and
the char-dev ioctls). That leaks a few bits of kernel stack per
request on any device whose firmware glitch, bus error, or hostile
slave produces a short block-read response.
Add the missing length check to both call sites and surface a short
response as -EIO.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-07-19
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfs: fix VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO() issue in netfs_write_begin() call
The multiple runs of generic/013 test-case is capable
to reproduce a kernel BUG at mm/filemap.c:1504 with
probability of 30%.
while true; do
sudo ./check generic/013
done
[ 9849.452376] page: refcount:3 mapcount:0 mapping:00000000e58ff252 index:0x10781 pfn:0x1c322
[ 9849.452412] memcg:ffff8881a1915800
[ 9849.452417] aops:ceph_aops ino:1000058db9e dentry name(?):"f9XXXXXX"
[ 9849.452432] flags: 0x17ffffc0000000(node=0|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x1fffff)
[ 9849.452441] raw: 0017ffffc0000000 0000000000000000 dead000000000122 ffff88816110d248
[ 9849.452445] raw: 0000000000010781 0000000000000000 00000003ffffffff ffff8881a1915800
[ 9849.452447] page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_FOLIO(!folio_test_locked(folio))
[ 9849.452474] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 9849.452476] kernel BUG at mm/filemap.c:1504!
[ 9849.478635] Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI
[ 9849.481772] CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 84223 Comm: fsstress Not tainted 7.0.0-rc1+ #18 PREEMPT(full)
[ 9849.482881] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.17.0-9.fc43 06/1
0/2025
[ 9849.484539] RIP: 0010:folio_unlock+0x85/0xa0
[ 9849.485076] Code: 89 df 31 f6 e8 1c f3 ff ff 48 8b 5d f8 c9 31 c0 31 d2 31 f6 31 ff c3 cc
cc cc cc 48 c7 c6 80 6c d9 a7 48 89 df e8 4b b3 10 00 <0f> 0b 48 89 df e8 21 e6 2c 00 eb 9d 0f 1f 40 00 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84
[ 9849.493818] RSP: 0018:ffff8881bb8076b0 EFLAGS: 00010246
[ 9849.495740] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffea00070c8980 RCX: 0000000000000000
[ 9849.498678] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
[ 9849.500559] RBP: ffff8881bb8076b8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
[ 9849.501097] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000010782000
[ 9849.502108] R13: ffff8881935de738 R14: ffff88816110d010 R15: 0000000000001000
[ 9849.502516] FS: 00007e36cbe94740(0000) GS:ffff88824a899000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 9849.502996] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 9849.503810] CR2: 000000c0002b0000 CR3: 000000011bbf6004 CR4: 0000000000772ef0
[ 9849.504459] PKRU: 55555554
[ 9849.504626] Call Trace:
[ 9849.505242] <TASK>
[ 9849.505379] netfs_write_begin+0x7c8/0x10a0
[ 9849.505877] ? __kasan_check_read+0x11/0x20
[ 9849.506384] ? __pfx_netfs_write_begin+0x10/0x10
[ 9849.507178] ceph_write_begin+0x8c/0x1c0
[ 9849.507934] generic_perform_write+0x391/0x8f0
[ 9849.508503] ? __pfx_generic_perform_write+0x10/0x10
[ 9849.509062] ? file_update_time_flags+0x19a/0x4b0
[ 9849.509581] ? ceph_get_caps+0x63/0xf0
[ 9849.510259] ? ceph_get_caps+0x63/0xf0
[ 9849.510530] ceph_write_iter+0xe79/0x1ae0
[ 9849.511282] ? __pfx_ceph_write_iter+0x10/0x10
[ 9849.511839] ? lock_acquire+0x1ad/0x310
[ 9849.512334] ? ksys_write+0xf9/0x230
[ 9849.512582] ? lock_is_held_type+0xaa/0x140
[ 9849.513128] vfs_write+0x512/0x1110
[ 9849.513634] ? __fget_files+0x33/0x350
[ 9849.513893] ? __pfx_vfs_write+0x10/0x10
[ 9849.514143] ? mutex_lock_nested+0x1b/0x30
[ 9849.514394] ksys_write+0xf9/0x230
[ 9849.514621] ? __pfx_ksys_write+0x10/0x10
[ 9849.514887] ? do_syscall_64+0x25e/0x1520
[ 9849.515122] ? __kasan_check_read+0x11/0x20
[ 9849.515366] ? trace_hardirqs_on_prepare+0x178/0x1c0
[ 9849.515655] __x64_sys_write+0x72/0xd0
[ 9849.515885] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0x24/0x1c0
[ 9849.516130] x64_sys_call+0x22f/0x2390
[ 9849.516341] do_syscall_64+0x12b/0x1520
[ 9849.516545] ? do_syscall_64+0x27c/0x1520
[ 9849.516783] ? do_syscall_64+0x27c/0x1520
[ 9849.517003] ? lock_release+0x318/0x480
[ 9849.517220] ? __x64_sys_io_getevents+0x143/0x2d0
[ 9849.517479] ? percpu_ref_put_many.constprop.0+0x8f/0x210
[ 9849.517779] ? entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
[ 9849.518073] ? do_syscall_64+0x25e/0x1520
[ 9849.518291] ? __kasan_check_read+0x11/0x20
[ 9849.518519] ? trace_hardirqs_on_prepare+0x178/0x1c0
[ 9849.518799] ? do_syscall_64+0x27c/0x1520
[ 9
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CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-07-19