Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 6.18.9 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
usb: class: cdc-wdm: fix reordering issue in read code path
Quoting the bug report:
Due to compiler optimization or CPU out-of-order execution, the
desc->length update can be reordered before the memmove. If this
happens, wdm_read() can see the new length and call copy_to_user() on
uninitialized memory. This also violates LKMM data race rules [1].
Fix it by using WRITE_ONCE and memory barriers.
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-05-08
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
USB: core: Limit the length of unkillable synchronous timeouts
The usb_control_msg(), usb_bulk_msg(), and usb_interrupt_msg() APIs in
usbcore allow unlimited timeout durations. And since they use
uninterruptible waits, this leaves open the possibility of hanging a
task for an indefinitely long time, with no way to kill it short of
unplugging the target device.
To prevent this sort of problem, enforce a maximum limit on the length
of these unkillable timeouts. The limit chosen here, somewhat
arbitrarily, is 60 seconds. On many systems (although not all) this
is short enough to avoid triggering the kernel's hung-task detector.
In addition, clear up the ambiguity of negative timeout values by
treating them the same as 0, i.e., using the maximum allowed timeout.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-05-08
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ASoC: qcom: qdsp6: Fix q6apm remove ordering during ADSP stop and start
During ADSP stop and start, the kernel crashes due to the order in which
ASoC components are removed.
On ADSP stop, the q6apm-audio .remove callback unloads topology and removes
PCM runtimes during ASoC teardown. This deletes the RTDs that contain the
q6apm DAI components before their removal pass runs, leaving those
components still linked to the card and causing crashes on the next rebind.
Fix this by ensuring that all dependent (child) components are removed
first, and the q6apm component is removed last.
[ 48.105720] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000000000d0
[ 48.114763] Mem abort info:
[ 48.117650] ESR = 0x0000000096000004
[ 48.121526] EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
[ 48.127010] SET = 0, FnV = 0
[ 48.130172] EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
[ 48.133415] FSC = 0x04: level 0 translation fault
[ 48.138446] Data abort info:
[ 48.141422] ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000004, ISS2 = 0x00000000
[ 48.147079] CM = 0, WnR = 0, TnD = 0, TagAccess = 0
[ 48.152354] GCS = 0, Overlay = 0, DirtyBit = 0, Xs = 0
[ 48.157859] user pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=00000001173cf000
[ 48.164517] [00000000000000d0] pgd=0000000000000000, p4d=0000000000000000
[ 48.171530] Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000004 [#1] SMP
[ 48.177348] Modules linked in: q6prm_clocks q6apm_lpass_dais q6apm_dai snd_q6dsp_common q6prm snd_q6apm 8021q garp mrp stp llc snd_soc_hdmi_codec apr pdr_interface phy_qcom_edp fastrpc qcom_pd_mapper rpmsg_ctrl qrtr_smd rpmsg_char qcom_pdr_msg qcom_iris v4l2_mem2mem videobuf2_dma_contig ath11k_pci msm ubwc_config at24 ath11k videobuf2_memops mac80211 ocmem videobuf2_v4l2 libarc4 drm_gpuvm mhi qrtr videodev drm_exec snd_soc_sc8280xp gpu_sched videobuf2_common nvmem_qcom_spmi_sdam snd_soc_qcom_sdw drm_dp_aux_bus qcom_q6v5_pas qcom_spmi_temp_alarm snd_soc_qcom_common rtc_pm8xxx qcom_pon drm_display_helper cec qcom_pil_info qcom_stats soundwire_bus drm_client_lib mc dispcc0_sa8775p videocc_sa8775p qcom_q6v5 camcc_sa8775p snd_soc_dmic phy_qcom_sgmii_eth snd_soc_max98357a i2c_qcom_geni snd_soc_core dwmac_qcom_ethqos llcc_qcom icc_bwmon qcom_sysmon snd_compress qcom_refgen_regulator coresight_stm stmmac_platform snd_pcm_dmaengine qcom_common coresight_tmc stmmac coresight_replicator qcom_glink_smem coresight_cti stm_core
[ 48.177444] coresight_funnel snd_pcm ufs_qcom phy_qcom_qmp_usb gpi phy_qcom_snps_femto_v2 coresight phy_qcom_qmp_ufs qcom_wdt gpucc_sa8775p pcs_xpcs mdt_loader qcom_ice icc_osm_l3 qmi_helpers snd_timer snd soundcore display_connector qcom_rng nvmem_reboot_mode drm_kms_helper phy_qcom_qmp_pcie sha256 cfg80211 rfkill socinfo fuse drm backlight ipv6
[ 48.301059] CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 293 Comm: kworker/u32:2 Not tainted 6.19.0-rc6-dirty #10 PREEMPT
[ 48.310081] Hardware name: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. Lemans EVK (DT)
[ 48.316782] Workqueue: pdr_notifier_wq pdr_notifier_work [pdr_interface]
[ 48.323672] pstate: 20400005 (nzCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
[ 48.330825] pc : mutex_lock+0xc/0x54
[ 48.334514] lr : soc_dapm_shutdown_dapm+0x44/0x174 [snd_soc_core]
[ 48.340794] sp : ffff800084ddb7b0
[ 48.344207] x29: ffff800084ddb7b0 x28: ffff00009cd9cf30 x27: ffff00009cd9cc00
[ 48.351544] x26: ffff000099610190 x25: ffffa31d2f19c810 x24: ffffa31d2f185098
[ 48.358869] x23: ffff800084ddb7f8 x22: 0000000000000000 x21: 00000000000000d0
[ 48.366198] x20: ffff00009ba6c338 x19: ffff00009ba6c338 x18: 00000000ffffffff
[ 48.373528] x17: 000000040044ffff x16: ffffa31d4ae6dca8 x15: 072007740775076f
[ 48.380853] x14: 0765076d07690774 x13: 00313a323a656369 x12: 767265733a637673
[ 48.388182] x11: 00000000000003f9 x10: ffffa31d4c7dea98 x9 : 0000000000000001
[ 48.395519] x8 : ffff00009a2aadc0 x7 : 0000000000000003 x6 : 0000000000000000
[ 48.402854] x5 : 0000000000000
---truncated---
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-05-08
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: hisi_sas: Fix NULL pointer exception during user_scan()
user_scan() invokes updated sas_user_scan() for channel 0, and if
successful, iteratively scans remaining channels (1 to shost->max_channel)
via scsi_scan_host_selected() in commit 37c4e72b0651 ("scsi: Fix
sas_user_scan() to handle wildcard and multi-channel scans"). However,
hisi_sas supports only one channel, and the current value of max_channel is
1. sas_user_scan() for channel 1 will trigger the following NULL pointer
exception:
[ 441.554662] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000000008b0
[ 441.554699] Mem abort info:
[ 441.554710] ESR = 0x0000000096000004
[ 441.554718] EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
[ 441.554723] SET = 0, FnV = 0
[ 441.554726] EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
[ 441.554730] FSC = 0x04: level 0 translation fault
[ 441.554735] Data abort info:
[ 441.554737] ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000004, ISS2 = 0x00000000
[ 441.554742] CM = 0, WnR = 0, TnD = 0, TagAccess = 0
[ 441.554747] GCS = 0, Overlay = 0, DirtyBit = 0, Xs = 0
[ 441.554752] user pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=00000828377a6000
[ 441.554757] [00000000000008b0] pgd=0000000000000000, p4d=0000000000000000
[ 441.554769] Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000004 [#1] SMP
[ 441.629589] Modules linked in: arm_spe_pmu arm_smmuv3_pmu tpm_tis_spi hisi_uncore_sllc_pmu hisi_uncore_pa_pmu hisi_uncore_l3c_pmu hisi_uncore_hha_pmu hisi_uncore_ddrc_pmu hisi_uncore_cpa_pmu hns3_pmu hisi_ptt hisi_pcie_pmu tpm_tis_core spidev spi_hisi_sfc_v3xx hisi_uncore_pmu spi_dw_mmio fuse hclge hclge_common hisi_sec2 hisi_hpre hisi_zip hisi_qm hns3 hisi_sas_v3_hw sm3_ce sbsa_gwdt hnae3 hisi_sas_main uacce hisi_dma i2c_hisi dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod
[ 441.670819] CPU: 46 UID: 0 PID: 6994 Comm: bash Kdump: loaded Not tainted 7.0.0-rc2+ #84 PREEMPT
[ 441.691327] pstate: 81400009 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
[ 441.698277] pc : sas_find_dev_by_rphy+0x44/0x118
[ 441.702896] lr : sas_find_dev_by_rphy+0x3c/0x118
[ 441.707502] sp : ffff80009abbba40
[ 441.710805] x29: ffff80009abbba40 x28: ffff082819a40008 x27: ffff082810c37c08
[ 441.717930] x26: ffff082810c37c28 x25: ffff082819a40290 x24: ffff082810c37c00
[ 441.725054] x23: 0000000000000000 x22: 0000000000000001 x21: ffff082819a40000
[ 441.732179] x20: ffff082819a40290 x19: 0000000000000000 x18: 0000000000000020
[ 441.739304] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: ffffb5dad6bda690 x15: 00000000ffffffff
[ 441.746428] x14: ffff082814c3b26c x13: 00000000ffffffff x12: ffff082814c3b26a
[ 441.753553] x11: 00000000000000c0 x10: 000000000000003a x9 : ffffb5dad5ea94f4
[ 441.760678] x8 : 000000000000003a x7 : ffff80009abbbab0 x6 : 0000000000000030
[ 441.767802] x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 : 0000000000000000
[ 441.774926] x2 : ffff08280f35a300 x1 : ffffb5dad7127180 x0 : 0000000000000000
[ 441.782053] Call trace:
[ 441.784488] sas_find_dev_by_rphy+0x44/0x118 (P)
[ 441.789095] sas_target_alloc+0x24/0xb0
[ 441.792920] scsi_alloc_target+0x290/0x330
[ 441.797010] __scsi_scan_target+0x88/0x258
[ 441.801096] scsi_scan_channel+0x74/0xb8
[ 441.805008] scsi_scan_host_selected+0x170/0x188
[ 441.809615] sas_user_scan+0xfc/0x148
[ 441.813267] store_scan+0x10c/0x180
[ 441.816743] dev_attr_store+0x20/0x40
[ 441.820398] sysfs_kf_write+0x84/0xa8
[ 441.824054] kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x130/0x1c8
[ 441.828487] vfs_write+0x2c0/0x370
[ 441.831880] ksys_write+0x74/0x118
[ 441.835271] __arm64_sys_write+0x24/0x38
[ 441.839182] invoke_syscall+0x50/0x120
[ 441.842919] el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xc8/0xf0
[ 441.847611] do_el0_svc+0x24/0x38
[ 441.850913] el0_svc+0x38/0x158
[ 441.854043] el0t_64_sync_handler+0xa0/0xe8
[ 441.858214] el0t_64_sync+0x1ac/0x1b0
[ 441.861865] Code: aa1303e0 97ff70a8 34ffff80 d10a4273 (f9445a75)
[ 441.867946] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
Therefore
---truncated---
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-05-08
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: ufs: core: Fix SError in ufshcd_rtc_work() during UFS suspend
In __ufshcd_wl_suspend(), cancel_delayed_work_sync() is called to cancel
the UFS RTC work, but it is placed after ufshcd_vops_suspend(hba, pm_op,
POST_CHANGE). This creates a race condition where ufshcd_rtc_work() can
still be running while ufshcd_vops_suspend() is executing. When
UFSHCD_CAP_CLK_GATING is not supported, the condition
!hba->clk_gating.active_reqs is always true, causing ufshcd_update_rtc()
to be executed. Since ufshcd_vops_suspend() typically performs clock
gating operations, executing ufshcd_update_rtc() at that moment triggers
an SError. The kernel panic trace is as follows:
Kernel panic - not syncing: Asynchronous SError Interrupt
Call trace:
dump_backtrace+0xec/0x128
show_stack+0x18/0x28
dump_stack_lvl+0x40/0xa0
dump_stack+0x18/0x24
panic+0x148/0x374
nmi_panic+0x3c/0x8c
arm64_serror_panic+0x64/0x8c
do_serror+0xc4/0xc8
el1h_64_error_handler+0x34/0x4c
el1h_64_error+0x68/0x6c
el1_interrupt+0x20/0x58
el1h_64_irq_handler+0x18/0x24
el1h_64_irq+0x68/0x6c
ktime_get+0xc4/0x12c
ufshcd_mcq_sq_stop+0x4c/0xec
ufshcd_mcq_sq_cleanup+0x64/0x1dc
ufshcd_clear_cmd+0x38/0x134
ufshcd_issue_dev_cmd+0x298/0x4d0
ufshcd_exec_dev_cmd+0x1a4/0x1c4
ufshcd_query_attr+0xbc/0x19c
ufshcd_rtc_work+0x10c/0x1c8
process_scheduled_works+0x1c4/0x45c
worker_thread+0x32c/0x3e8
kthread+0x120/0x1d8
ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
Fix this by moving cancel_delayed_work_sync() before the call to
ufshcd_vops_suspend(hba, pm_op, PRE_CHANGE), ensuring the UFS RTC work is
fully completed or cancelled at that point.
CVSS Score
4.7
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-05-08
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
powerpc, perf: Check that current->mm is alive before getting user callchain
It may happen that mm is already released, which leads to kernel panic.
This adds the NULL check for current->mm, similarly to
commit 20afc60f892d ("x86, perf: Check that current->mm is alive before getting user callchain").
I was getting this panic when running a profiling BPF program
(profile.py from bcc-tools):
[26215.051935] Kernel attempted to read user page (588) - exploit attempt? (uid: 0)
[26215.051950] BUG: Kernel NULL pointer dereference on read at 0x00000588
[26215.051952] Faulting instruction address: 0xc00000000020fac0
[26215.051957] Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
[...]
[26215.052049] Call Trace:
[26215.052050] [c000000061da6d30] [c00000000020fc10] perf_callchain_user_64+0x2d0/0x490 (unreliable)
[26215.052054] [c000000061da6dc0] [c00000000020f92c] perf_callchain_user+0x1c/0x30
[26215.052057] [c000000061da6de0] [c0000000005ab2a0] get_perf_callchain+0x100/0x360
[26215.052063] [c000000061da6e70] [c000000000573bc8] bpf_get_stackid+0x88/0xf0
[26215.052067] [c000000061da6ea0] [c008000000042258] bpf_prog_16d4ab9ab662f669_do_perf_event+0xf8/0x274
[...]
In addition, move storing the top-level stack entry to generic
perf_callchain_user to make sure the top-evel entry is always captured,
even if current->mm is NULL.
[Maddy: fixed message to avoid checkpatch format style error]
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-05-08
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ceph: fix memory leaks in ceph_mdsc_build_path()
Add __putname() calls to error code paths that did not free the "path"
pointer obtained by __getname(). If ownership of this pointer is not
passed to the caller via path_info.path, the function must free it
before returning.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-05-08
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
libceph: Use u32 for non-negative values in ceph_monmap_decode()
This patch fixes unnecessary implicit conversions that change signedness
of blob_len and num_mon in ceph_monmap_decode().
Currently blob_len and num_mon are (signed) int variables. They are used
to hold values that are always non-negative and get assigned in
ceph_decode_32_safe(), which is meant to assign u32 values. Both
variables are subsequently used as unsigned values, and the value of
num_mon is further assigned to monmap->num_mon, which is of type u32.
Therefore, both variables should be of type u32. This is especially
relevant for num_mon. If the value read from the incoming message is
very large, it is interpreted as a negative value, and the check for
num_mon > CEPH_MAX_MON does not catch it. This leads to the attempt to
allocate a very large chunk of memory for monmap, which will most likely
fail. In this case, an unnecessary attempt to allocate memory is
performed, and -ENOMEM is returned instead of -EINVAL.
CVSS Score
7.5
EPSS Score
0.005
Published
2026-05-08
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
libceph: prevent potential out-of-bounds reads in process_message_header()
If the message frame is (maliciously) corrupted in a way that the
length of the control segment ends up being less than the size of the
message header or a different frame is made to look like a message
frame, out-of-bounds reads may ensue in process_message_header().
Perform an explicit bounds check before decoding the message header.
CVSS Score
9.1
EPSS Score
0.005
Published
2026-05-08
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
libceph: Fix potential out-of-bounds access in ceph_handle_auth_reply()
This patch fixes an out-of-bounds access in ceph_handle_auth_reply()
that can be triggered by a message of type CEPH_MSG_AUTH_REPLY. In
ceph_handle_auth_reply(), the value of the payload_len field of such a
message is stored in a variable of type int. A value greater than
INT_MAX leads to an integer overflow and is interpreted as a negative
value. This leads to decrementing the pointer address by this value and
subsequently accessing it because ceph_decode_need() only checks that
the memory access does not exceed the end address of the allocation.
This patch fixes the issue by changing the data type of payload_len to
u32. Additionally, the data type of result_msg_len is changed to u32,
as it is also a variable holding a non-negative length.
Also, an additional layer of sanity checks is introduced, ensuring that
directly after reading it from the message, payload_len and
result_msg_len are not greater than the overall segment length.
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ceph_handle_auth_reply+0x642/0x7a0 [libceph]
Read of size 4 at addr ffff88811404df14 by task kworker/20:1/262
CPU: 20 UID: 0 PID: 262 Comm: kworker/20:1 Not tainted 6.19.2 #5 PREEMPT(voluntary)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
Workqueue: ceph-msgr ceph_con_workfn [libceph]
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x76/0xa0
print_report+0xd1/0x620
? __pfx__raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x10/0x10
? kasan_complete_mode_report_info+0x72/0x210
kasan_report+0xe7/0x130
? ceph_handle_auth_reply+0x642/0x7a0 [libceph]
? ceph_handle_auth_reply+0x642/0x7a0 [libceph]
__asan_report_load_n_noabort+0xf/0x20
ceph_handle_auth_reply+0x642/0x7a0 [libceph]
mon_dispatch+0x973/0x23d0 [libceph]
? apparmor_socket_recvmsg+0x6b/0xa0
? __pfx_mon_dispatch+0x10/0x10 [libceph]
? __kasan_check_write+0x14/0x30i
? mutex_unlock+0x7f/0xd0
? __pfx_mutex_unlock+0x10/0x10
? __pfx_do_recvmsg+0x10/0x10 [libceph]
ceph_con_process_message+0x1f1/0x650 [libceph]
process_message+0x1e/0x450 [libceph]
ceph_con_v2_try_read+0x2e48/0x6c80 [libceph]
? __pfx_ceph_con_v2_try_read+0x10/0x10 [libceph]
? save_fpregs_to_fpstate+0xb0/0x230
? raw_spin_rq_unlock+0x17/0xa0
? finish_task_switch.isra.0+0x13b/0x760
? __switch_to+0x385/0xda0
? __kasan_check_write+0x14/0x30
? mutex_lock+0x8d/0xe0
? __pfx_mutex_lock+0x10/0x10
ceph_con_workfn+0x248/0x10c0 [libceph]
process_one_work+0x629/0xf80
? __kasan_check_write+0x14/0x30
worker_thread+0x87f/0x1570
? __pfx__raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x10/0x10
? __pfx_try_to_wake_up+0x10/0x10
? kasan_print_address_stack_frame+0x1f7/0x280
? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10
kthread+0x396/0x830
? __pfx__raw_spin_lock_irq+0x10/0x10
? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
? __kasan_check_write+0x14/0x30
? recalc_sigpending+0x180/0x210
? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
ret_from_fork+0x3f7/0x610
? __pfx_ret_from_fork+0x10/0x10
? __switch_to+0x385/0xda0
? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
</TASK>
[ idryomov: replace if statements with ceph_decode_need() for
payload_len and result_msg_len ]
CVSS Score
9.1
EPSS Score
0.005
Published
2026-05-08