Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 4.14.32 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
staging: rtl8723bs: fix mismatched free of HalData in rtw_sdio_if1_init()
padapter->HalData is allocated via vzalloc(), but incorrectly freed
using kfree() in the rtw_sdio_if1_init() error path. Using kfree() to
release this vmalloc-backed buffer can lead to memory corruption.
Use rtw_hal_data_deinit() to pair the free correctly and free
HalData with vfree().
The bug was first flagged by an experimental static analysis tool we
are developing for kernel memory-management bugs. Manual inspection
confirms that the issue is still present in current mainline.
An x86_64 allyesconfig build showed no new warnings. As we do not have
suitable RTL8723BS SDIO hardware to test with, no runtime testing was
able to be performed.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-09-25
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
RDMA/srpt: Fix srpt_alloc_rw_ctxs() unwind counters
When srpt_alloc_rw_ctxs() fails partway through a multi-buffer indirect
descriptor, the unwind path destroys RDMA contexts but leaves stale
n_rw_ctx and n_rdma values (and a dangling rw_ctxs pointer). Later
sq_wr_avail accounting in srpt_queue_response() or srpt_write_pending()
can then subtract the wrong number of send queue credits.
Reset the counters and clear rw_ctxs after freeing the heap
allocation before returning an error.
CVSS Score
9.8
EPSS Score
0.004
Published
2026-09-25
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
staging: rtl8723bs: fix xmit_frame/xmit_buf leaks on mgnt-frame error paths
issue_beacon(), issue_probersp() and issue_asocrsp() obtain a management
xmit_frame together with its xmit_buf from the driver's fixed-size
management-TX pools via alloc_mgtxmitframe(). On the normal path the frame
is handed to dump_mgntframe(), which transfers ownership and eventually
returns both objects to their pools (the frame and, for beacons, the buf
in rtl8723bs_mgnt_xmit(); other bufs via the pending-xmitbuf/TX-completion
path).
Several error/edge paths return early after a successful
alloc_mgtxmitframe() but before dump_mgntframe(), so ownership is never
transferred and neither object is freed:
- issue_beacon(): beacon larger than 512 bytes
- issue_probersp(): cur_network->ie_length > MAX_IE_SZ
- issue_probersp(): kzalloc() of the SSID scratch buffer fails
- issue_asocrsp(): pkt_type is neither ASSOCRSP nor REASSOCRSP
Because alloc_mgtxmitframe() removes the frame and buf from their free
lists (list_del_init) without placing them on any pending list, an
orphaned pair is on no list and referenced by nobody, so it is only
reclaimed at driver teardown. Repeated hits progressively exhaust the
management-TX pools until alloc_mgtxmitframe() returns NULL and the
interface can no longer send beacons or probe/assoc responses.
Free the frame and buffer on these paths, matching the existing correct
error handling in issue_assocreq().
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-09-25
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/msm: Recover HW before retire hung submit
During recovery, it is not safe to retire the hung submit before we
recover the GPU. Retiring the submit triggers BO free and that can
result in GPU pagefaults since the GPU may be actively accessing those
BOs.
To fix this, retire the submits after gpu recovery is complete in
recover_worker().
Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/730655/
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-09-25
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
can: bcm: switch timer to HRTIMER_MODE_SOFT and remove hrtimer_tasklet
This patch switches the timer to HRTIMER_MODE_SOFT, which executed the
timer callback in softirq context and removes the hrtimer_tasklet.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-07-27
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
6lowpan: fix NHC entry use-after-free on error path
lowpan_nhc_do_uncompression() looks up an NHC descriptor while holding
lowpan_nhc_lock. If the descriptor has no uncompress callback, the error
path drops the lock before printing nhc->name.
lowpan_nhc_del() removes descriptors under the same lock and then relies
on synchronize_net() before the owning module can be unloaded. That only
waits for net RX RCU readers. lowpan_header_decompress() is also exported
and can be reached from callers that are not necessarily covered by the net
core RX critical section, for example the Bluetooth 6LoWPAN L2CAP receive
path.
This leaves a race where one task drops lowpan_nhc_lock in the error path,
another task unregisters and frees the matching descriptor after
synchronize_net() returns, and the first task then dereferences nhc->name
for the warning.
With the post-unlock window widened, KASAN reports:
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in lowpan_nhc_do_uncompression+0x1f4/0x220
Read of size 8
lowpan_nhc_do_uncompression
lowpan_header_decompress
Fix this by printing the warning before dropping lowpan_nhc_lock, so the
descriptor name is read while unregister is still excluded. The malformed
packet is still rejected with -ENOTSUPP.
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2026-07-25
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
staging: rtl8723bs: fix OOB read in OnAssocRsp() IE loop
The IE parsing loop in OnAssocRsp() advances by (pIE->length + 2) each
iteration but only guards on i < pkt_len. When a malicious AP sends an
AssocResponse whose last IE has only one byte remaining in the frame
(the element_id byte lands at pkt_len-1), the loop reads pIE->length
from pframe[pkt_len], which is one byte past the allocated receive buffer.
Additionally, even when the header bytes are in bounds, pIE->length
itself can extend the data window beyond pkt_len, silently passing a
truncated IE to the handler functions.
Add two guards at the top of the loop body:
1. Break if fewer than sizeof(*pIE) bytes remain (can't read header).
2. Break if the IE's declared data extends past pkt_len.
CVSS Score
8.1
EPSS Score
0.004
Published
2026-07-25
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
staging: rtl8723bs: fix WEP length underflow and OOB read in OnAuth()
OnAuth() has two bugs in the shared-key authentication path.
When the Privacy bit is set, rtw_wep_decrypt() is called without
verifying that the frame is long enough to contain a valid WEP IV and
ICV. Inside rtw_wep_decrypt(), length is computed as:
length = len - WLAN_HDR_A3_LEN - iv_len
and then passed as (length - 4) to crc32_le(). If len is less than
WLAN_HDR_A3_LEN + iv_len + icv_len (32 bytes), length - 4 is negative
and, after the implicit cast to size_t, causes crc32_le() to read far
beyond the frame buffer. Add a minimum length check before accessing
the IV field and calling the decryption path.
When processing a seq=3 response, rtw_get_ie() stores the Challenge
Text IE length in ie_len, but the subsequent memcmp() always reads 128
bytes regardless of ie_len. IEEE 802.11 mandates a challenge text of
exactly 128 bytes; reject any IE whose length field differs, matching
the check already applied to OnAuthClient().
CVSS Score
8.8
EPSS Score
0.005
Published
2026-07-25
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
staging: rtl8723bs: fix heap buffer overflow in rtw_cfg80211_set_wpa_ie()
supplicant_ie is a 256-byte array in struct security_priv. The WPA and
WPA2 IE copy paths use:
memcpy(padapter->securitypriv.supplicant_ie, &pwpa[0], wpa_ielen + 2);
where wpa_ielen is the raw IE length field (u8, 0-255). When a local user
supplies a connect request via nl80211 with a crafted WPA IE of length 255,
wpa_ielen + 2 equals 257, overflowing the 256-byte buffer by one byte into
the adjacent last_mic_err_time field.
rtw_parse_wpa_ie() does not prevent this: its length consistency check
compares *(wpa_ie+1) against (u8)(wpa_ie_len-2), which is (u8)(255) == 255
when wpa_ie_len = 257, so the check passes silently.
Add explicit bounds checks for both the WPA and WPA2 paths before the
memcpy, rejecting any IE whose total size (wpa_ielen + 2) exceeds the
supplicant_ie buffer.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2026-07-25
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
smb: client: restrict implied bcc[0] exemption to responses without data area
smb2_check_message() has a long-standing quirk that accepts a response
whose calculated length is one byte larger than the bytes actually
received ("server can return one byte more due to implied bcc[0]").
This was introduced to accommodate servers that omit the trailing bcc[0]
overlap byte when no data area is present.
However, the exemption is applied unconditionally, regardless of whether
the command actually carries a data area (has_smb2_data_area[]). When a
response with a data area is subject to the +1 exemption, the reported
data can extend one byte beyond the bytes actually received, yet
smb2_check_message() still accepts it. The subsequent decoder then reads
past the end of the receive buffer. This is reachable during NEGOTIATE
and SESSION_SETUP, before the session is established.
The resulting out-of-bounds reads are visible under KASAN when mounting
against a non-conforming server; both the SPNEGO/negTokenInit and the
NTLMSSP challenge decoders are affected:
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in asn1_ber_decoder+0x16a7/0x1b00
Read of size 1 at addr ffff8880084d67c0 by task mount.cifs/81
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 81 Comm: mount.cifs Not tainted 7.1.0-rc6 #1
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x4e/0x70
print_report+0x157/0x4c9
kasan_report+0xce/0x100
asn1_ber_decoder+0x16a7/0x1b00
decode_negTokenInit+0x19/0x30
SMB2_negotiate+0x31d9/0x4c90
cifs_negotiate_protocol+0x1f2/0x3f0
cifs_get_smb_ses+0x93f/0x17e0
cifs_mount_get_session+0x7f/0x3a0
cifs_mount+0xb4/0xcf0
cifs_smb3_do_mount+0x23a/0x1500
smb3_get_tree+0x3b0/0x630
vfs_get_tree+0x82/0x2d0
fc_mount+0x10/0x1b0
path_mount+0x50d/0x1de0
__x64_sys_mount+0x20b/0x270
do_syscall_64+0xee/0x590
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
</TASK>
Allocated by task 85:
kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x106/0x380
mempool_alloc_noprof+0x116/0x1e0
cifs_small_buf_get+0x31/0x80
allocate_buffers+0x10d/0x2b0
cifs_demultiplex_thread+0x1d5/0x1d50
kthread+0x2c6/0x390
ret_from_fork+0x36e/0x5a0
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
The buggy address is located 0 bytes to the right of
allocated 448-byte region [ffff8880084d6600, ffff8880084d67c0)
which belongs to the cache cifs_small_rq of size 448
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in kmemdup_noprof+0x36/0x50
Read of size 329 at addr ffff88800726c678 by task mount.cifs/89
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 89 Comm: mount.cifs Tainted: G B 7.1.0-rc6 #1
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x4e/0x70
print_report+0x157/0x4c9
kasan_report+0xce/0x100
kasan_check_range+0x10f/0x1e0
__asan_memcpy+0x23/0x60
kmemdup_noprof+0x36/0x50
decode_ntlmssp_challenge+0x457/0x680
SMB2_sess_auth_rawntlmssp_negotiate+0x6f0/0xcb0
SMB2_sess_setup+0x219/0x4f0
cifs_setup_session+0x248/0xaf0
cifs_get_smb_ses+0xf79/0x17e0
cifs_mount_get_session+0x7f/0x3a0
cifs_mount+0xb4/0xcf0
cifs_smb3_do_mount+0x23a/0x1500
smb3_get_tree+0x3b0/0x630
vfs_get_tree+0x82/0x2d0
fc_mount+0x10/0x1b0
path_mount+0x50d/0x1de0
__x64_sys_mount+0x20b/0x270
do_syscall_64+0xee/0x590
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
</TASK>
Allocated by task 93:
kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x106/0x380
mempool_alloc_noprof+0x116/0x1e0
cifs_small_buf_get+0x31/0x80
allocate_buffers+0x10d/0x2b0
cifs_demultiplex_thread+0x1d5/0x1d50
kthread+0x2c6/0x390
ret_from_fork+0x36e/0x5a0
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
The buggy address is located 120 bytes inside of
allocated 448-byte region [ffff88800726c600, ffff88800726c7c0)
which belongs to the cache cifs_small_rq of size 448
Restrict the +1 exemption to responses that have no data area, so that
it still covers the bcc[0] omission it was meant for. When a data area
is present, the +1 discrepancy instead means the reported data length
overruns the
---truncated---
CVSS Score
8.2
EPSS Score
0.006
Published
2026-07-25
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