Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 5.15.218 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: nf_conntrack: destroy stale expectfn expectations on unregister
NAT helpers such as nf_nat_h323 store a raw pointer to module text in
exp->expectfn (e.g. ip_nat_q931_expect). nf_ct_helper_expectfn_unregister()
only unlinks the callback descriptor and never walks the expectation table,
so an expectation pending at module removal survives with a dangling
exp->expectfn into freed module text.
When the expected connection arrives, init_conntrack() invokes
exp->expectfn(), now a stale pointer into the unloaded module. Reproduced
on a KASAN build by loading the H.323 helpers, creating a Q.931
expectation, unloading nf_nat_h323, then connecting to the expected port:
Oops: int3: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI
RIP: 0010:0xffffffffa06102d1
init_conntrack.isra.0 (net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:1862)
nf_conntrack_in (net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:2049)
ipv4_conntrack_local (net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto.c:223)
nf_hook_slow (net/netfilter/core.c:619)
__ip_local_out (net/ipv4/ip_output.c:120)
__tcp_transmit_skb (net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:1715)
tcp_connect (net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:4374)
tcp_v4_connect (net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c:345)
__sys_connect (net/socket.c:2167)
Modules linked in: nf_conntrack_h323 [last unloaded: nf_nat_h323]
Reaching the dangling state requires CAP_SYS_MODULE in the initial user
namespace to remove a NAT helper that still has live expectations, so this
is a robustness fix; leaving an expectation pointing at freed text is wrong
regardless.
Add nf_ct_helper_expectfn_destroy(), which walks the expectation table and
drops every expectation whose ->expectfn matches the descriptor being torn
down. Call it from each NAT helper's exit path after the existing RCU grace
period, so no expectation outlives the code it points at and no extra
synchronize_rcu() is introduced. With the fix, the same reproducer runs to
completion without the Oops.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2026-07-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
hsr: Remove WARN_ONCE() in hsr_addr_is_self().
syzbot reported the warning [0] in hsr_addr_is_self(),
whose assumption is simply wrong.
hsr->self_node is cleared in hsr_del_self_node(), which
is called from hsr_dellink().
Since dev->rtnl_link_ops->dellink() is called before
unregister_netdevice_many(), there is a window when
user can find the device but without hsr->self_node.
Let's remove WARN_ONCE() in hsr_addr_is_self().
[0]:
HSR: No self node
WARNING: net/hsr/hsr_framereg.c:39 at hsr_addr_is_self+0x211/0x3f0 net/hsr/hsr_framereg.c:39, CPU#0: syz.4.16848/17220
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 17220 Comm: syz.4.16848 Tainted: G L syzkaller #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)}
Tainted: [L]=SOFTLOCKUP
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 04/18/2026
RIP: 0010:hsr_addr_is_self+0x211/0x3f0 net/hsr/hsr_framereg.c:39
Code: 33 2f 41 0f b7 dd 89 ee 09 de 31 ff e8 c8 b4 c6 f6 09 dd 74 54 e8 0f b0 c6 f6 31 ed eb 53 e8 06 b0 c6 f6 48 8d 3d 2f 50 9c 04 <67> 48 0f b9 3a 31 ed eb 42 e8 c1 13 1f 00 89 c5 31 ff 89 c6 e8 96
RSP: 0018:ffffc900041c70e0 EFLAGS: 00010283
RAX: ffffffff8afdc6ca RBX: ffffffff8afdc4e6 RCX: 0000000000080000
RDX: ffffc90010493000 RSI: 0000000000000948 RDI: ffffffff8f9a1700
RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ffffc900041c71e8 R11: fffff52000838e3f R12: dffffc0000000000
R13: ffff888041f9e3c0 R14: ffff888086ee3802 R15: 0000000000000000
FS: 00007f6fe985d6c0(0000) GS:ffff888126176000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f80bd437dac CR3: 0000000025096000 CR4: 00000000003526f0
DR0: ffffffffffffffff DR1: 00000000000001f8 DR2: 0000000000000002
DR3: ffffffffefffff15 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
<TASK>
check_local_dest net/hsr/hsr_forward.c:592 [inline]
fill_frame_info net/hsr/hsr_forward.c:728 [inline]
hsr_forward_skb+0xa11/0x2a80 net/hsr/hsr_forward.c:739
hsr_dev_xmit+0x253/0x370 net/hsr/hsr_device.c:236
__netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:5368 [inline]
netdev_start_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:5377 [inline]
xmit_one net/core/dev.c:3888 [inline]
dev_hard_start_xmit+0x2df/0x860 net/core/dev.c:3904
__dev_queue_xmit+0x1428/0x3900 net/core/dev.c:4870
neigh_output include/net/neighbour.h:556 [inline]
ip_finish_output2+0xcec/0x10b0 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:237
ip_send_skb net/ipv4/ip_output.c:1510 [inline]
ip_push_pending_frames+0x8b/0x110 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:1530
raw_sendmsg+0x1547/0x1a50 net/ipv4/raw.c:659
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:787 [inline]
__sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:802 [inline]
____sys_sendmsg+0x7da/0x9c0 net/socket.c:2698
___sys_sendmsg+0x2a5/0x360 net/socket.c:2752
__sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2784 [inline]
__do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2789 [inline]
__se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2787 [inline]
__x64_sys_sendmsg+0x1c3/0x2a0 net/socket.c:2787
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x15f/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f6feb62ce59
Code: ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 e8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007f6fe985d028 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f6feb8a6090 RCX: 00007f6feb62ce59
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000200000000000 RDI: 0000000000000004
RBP: 00007f6feb6c2d6f R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f6feb8a6128 R14: 00007f6feb8a6090 R15: 00007ffcf01cc488
</TASK>
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2026-07-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
slimbus: qcom-ngd-ctrl: Register callbacks after creating the ngd
When the remoteproc starts in parallel with the NGD driver being probed,
or the remoteproc is already up when the PDR lookup is being registered,
or in the theoretical event that we get an interrupt from the hardware,
these callbacks will operate on uninitialized data. This result in
issues to boot the affected boards.
One such example can be seen in the following fault, where
qcom_slim_ngd_ssr_pdr_notify() schedules work on the NULL ngd_up_work.
[ 21.858578] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 21.858745] WARNING: kernel/workqueue.c:2338 at __queue_work+0x5e0/0x790, CPU#2: kworker/2:2/116
...
[ 21.859251] Call trace:
[ 21.859255] __queue_work+0x5e0/0x790 (P)
[ 21.859265] queue_work_on+0x6c/0xf0
[ 21.859273] qcom_slim_ngd_ssr_pdr_notify+0x110/0x150 [slim_qcom_ngd_ctrl]
[ 21.859304] qcom_slim_ngd_ssr_notify+0x24/0x40 [slim_qcom_ngd_ctrl]
[ 21.859318] notifier_call_chain+0xa4/0x230
[ 21.859329] srcu_notifier_call_chain+0x64/0xb8
[ 21.859338] ssr_notify_start+0x40/0x78 [qcom_common]
[ 21.859355] rproc_start+0x130/0x230
[ 21.859367] rproc_boot+0x3d4/0x518
...
Move the enablement of interrupts, and the registration of SSR and PDR
until after the NGD device has been registered.
This could be further refined by moving initialization to the control
driver probe and by removing the platform driver model from the picture.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-07-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
debugobjects: Do not fill_pool() if pi_blocked_on
On RT enabled kernels, fill_pool() ends up calling rtlock_lock(), which
asserts if current::pi_blocked_on is set, because a task can obviously only
block on one lock as otherwise the priority inheritenace chain gets
corrupted.
Prevent this by expanding the conditional to take current::pi_blocked_on
into account.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-07-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/amd/display: Fix out-of-bounds read in dp_get_eq_aux_rd_interval()
[Why & How]
The aux_rd_interval array in struct dc_lttpr_caps is declared with
MAX_REPEATER_CNT - 1 (7) elements, indexed 0..6. However, the offset
parameter passed to dp_get_eq_aux_rd_interval() can be as large as
MAX_REPEATER_CNT (8) when a sink reports 8 LTTPR repeaters via DPCD.
This leads to an out-of-bounds read of aux_rd_interval[7] when offset
is 8.
Fix this by growing aux_rd_interval to MAX_REPEATER_CNT elements to
accommodate the full range of valid repeater counts defined by the DP
spec.
(cherry picked from commit a55a458a8df37a65ffda5cf721d554a8f74f6b04)
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2026-07-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: mt76: mt7921: Place upper limit on station AID
Any station configured with an AID over 20 causes a firmware crash.
This situation occurred in our testing using an AP interface on 7922
hardware, with a modified hostapd, sourced from Mediatek's OpenWRT
feeds.
In stock hostapd, station AIDs begin counting at 1, and this
configuration is prevented with an upper limit on associated stations.
However, the modified hostapd began allocation at 65, which caused the
firmware to crash. This fix does not allow these AIDs to work, but will
prevent the firmware crash.
This crash was only seen on IFTYPE_AP interfaces, and the fix does not
appear to have an effect on IFTYPE_STATION behavior.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-06-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
padata: Put CPU offline callback in ONLINE section to allow failure
syzbot reported the following warning:
DEAD callback error for CPU1
WARNING: kernel/cpu.c:1463 at _cpu_down+0x759/0x1020 kernel/cpu.c:1463, CPU#0: syz.0.1960/14614
at commit 4ae12d8bd9a8 ("Merge tag 'kbuild-fixes-7.0-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kbuild/linux")
which tglx traced to padata_cpu_dead() given it's the only
sub-CPUHP_TEARDOWN_CPU callback that returns an error.
Failure isn't allowed in hotplug states before CPUHP_TEARDOWN_CPU
so move the CPU offline callback to the ONLINE section where failure is
possible.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-06-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/amd/display: Avoid NULL dereference in dc_dmub_srv error paths
In dc_dmub_srv_log_diagnostic_data() and
dc_dmub_srv_enable_dpia_trace().
Both functions check:
if (!dc_dmub_srv || !dc_dmub_srv->dmub)
and then call DC_LOG_ERROR() inside that block.
DC_LOG_ERROR() uses dc_dmub_srv->ctx internally. So if
dc_dmub_srv is NULL, the logging itself can dereference a
NULL pointer and cause a crash.
Fix this by splitting the checks.
First check if dc_dmub_srv is NULL and return immediately.
Then check dc_dmub_srv->dmub and log the error only when
dc_dmub_srv is valid.
Fixes the below:
../display/dc/dc_dmub_srv.c:962 dc_dmub_srv_log_diagnostic_data() error: we previously assumed 'dc_dmub_srv' could be null (see line 961)
../display/dc/dc_dmub_srv.c:1167 dc_dmub_srv_enable_dpia_trace() error: we previously assumed 'dc_dmub_srv' could be null (see line 1166)
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-06-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
f2fs: protect extension_list reading with sb_lock in f2fs_sbi_show()
In f2fs_sbi_show(), the extension_list, extension_count and
hot_ext_count are read without holding sbi->sb_lock. If a concurrent
sysfs store modifies the extension list via f2fs_update_extension_list(),
the show path may read inconsistent count and array contents, potentially
leading to out-of-bounds access or displaying stale data.
Fix this by holding sb_lock around the entire extension list read
and format operation.
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-06-26
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: phonet: do not BUG_ON() in pn_socket_autobind() on failed bind
syzbot reported a kernel BUG triggered from pn_socket_sendmsg() via
pn_socket_autobind():
kernel BUG at net/phonet/socket.c:213!
RIP: 0010:pn_socket_autobind net/phonet/socket.c:213 [inline]
RIP: 0010:pn_socket_sendmsg+0x240/0x250 net/phonet/socket.c:421
Call Trace:
sock_sendmsg_nosec+0x112/0x150 net/socket.c:797
__sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:812 [inline]
__sys_sendto+0x402/0x590 net/socket.c:2280
...
pn_socket_autobind() calls pn_socket_bind() with port 0 and, on
-EINVAL, assumes the socket was already bound and asserts that the
port is non-zero:
err = pn_socket_bind(sock, ..., sizeof(struct sockaddr_pn));
if (err != -EINVAL)
return err;
BUG_ON(!pn_port(pn_sk(sock->sk)->sobject));
return 0; /* socket was already bound */
However pn_socket_bind() also returns -EINVAL when sk->sk_state is not
TCP_CLOSE, even when the socket has never been bound and pn_port() is
still 0. In that case the BUG_ON() fires and panics the kernel from a
user-triggerable path.
Treat the "bind returned -EINVAL but pn_port() is still 0" case as a
regular error and propagate -EINVAL to the caller instead of crashing.
Existing callers already translate a non-zero return from
pn_socket_autobind() into -ENOBUFS/-EAGAIN, so returning -EINVAL here
only changes behaviour from panic to a normal errno.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-06-26