CVE-2025-38636

The Linux Kernel, the operating system core itself.

Security Fix(es):

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

nfc: nci: Fix uninit-value in nci_rx_work

syzbot reported the following uninit-value access issue [1]

nci_rx_work() parses received packet from ndev->rx_q. It should be validated header size, payload size and total packet size before processing the packet. If an invalid packet is detected, it should be silently discarded.(CVE-2024-38381)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:net: ti: icssg_prueth: Fix NULL pointer dereference in prueth_probe()In the prueth_probe() function, if one of the calls to emac_phy_connect()fails due to of_phy_connect() returning NULL, then the subsequent call tophy_attached_info() will dereference a NULL pointer.Check the return code of emac_phy_connect and fail cleanly if there is anerror.(CVE-2024-38584)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:cpufreq: exit() callback is optionalThe exit() callback is optional and shouldn t be called without checkinga valid pointer first.Also, we must clear freq_table pointer even if the exit() callback isn tpresent.(CVE-2024-38615)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:serial: max3100: Update uart_driver_registered on driver removalThe removal of the last MAX3100 device triggers the removal ofthe driver. However, code doesn t update the respective globalvariable and after insmod — rmmod — insmod cycle the kerneloopses: max3100 spi-PRP0001:01: max3100_probe: adding port 0 BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000408 ... RIP: 0010:serial_core_register_port+0xa0/0x840 ... max3100_probe+0x1b6/0x280 [max3100] spi_probe+0x8d/0xb0Update the actual state so next time UART driver will be registeredagain.Hugo also noticed, that the error path in the probe also affectedby having the variable set, and not cleared. Instead of clearing itmove the assignment after the successfull uart_register_driver() call.(CVE-2024-38633)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

enic: Validate length of nl attributes in enic_set_vf_port

enic_set_vf_port assumes that the nl attribute IFLA_PORT_PROFILE is of length PORT_PROFILE_MAX and that the nl attributes IFLA_PORT_INSTANCE_UUID, IFLA_PORT_HOST_UUID are of length PORT_UUID_MAX. These attributes are validated (in the function do_setlink in rtnetlink.c) using the nla_policy ifla_port_policy. The policy defines IFLA_PORT_PROFILE as NLA_STRING, IFLA_PORT_INSTANCE_UUID as NLA_BINARY and IFLA_PORT_HOST_UUID as NLA_STRING. That means that the length validation using the policy is for the max size of the attributes and not on exact size so the length of these attributes might be less than the sizes that enic_set_vf_port expects. This might cause an out of bands read access in the memcpys of the data of these attributes in enic_set_vf_port.(CVE-2024-38659)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:riscv: prevent pt_regs corruption for secondary idle threadsTop of the kernel thread stack should be reserved for pt_regs. Howeverthis is not the case for the idle threads of the secondary boot harts.Their stacks overlap with their pt_regs, so both may get corrupted.Similar issue has been fixed for the primary hart, see c7cdd96eca28( riscv: prevent stack corruption by reserving task_pt_regs(p) early ).However that fix was not propagated to the secondary harts. The problemhas been noticed in some CPU hotplug tests with V enabled. The functionsmp_callin stored several registers on stack, corrupting top of pt_regsstructure including status field. As a result, kernel attempted to saveor restore inexistent V context.(CVE-2024-38667)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:jfs: xattr: fix buffer overflow for invalid xattrWhen an xattr size is not what is expected, it is printed out to thekernel log in hex format as a…

The Linux Kernel, the operating system core itself.

Security Fix(es):

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

nilfs2: fix null-ptr-deref in block_touch_buffer tracepoint

Patch series "nilfs2: fix null-ptr-deref bugs on block tracepoints".

This series fixes null pointer dereference bugs that occur when using nilfs2 and two block-related tracepoints.

This patch (of 2):

It has been reported that when using "block:block_touch_buffer" tracepoint, touch_buffer() called from __nilfs_get_folio_block() causes a NULL pointer dereference, or a general protection fault when KASAN is enabled.

This happens because since the tracepoint was added in touch_buffer(), it references the dev_t member bh->b_bdev->bd_dev regardless of whether the buffer head has a pointer to a block_device structure. In the current implementation, the block_device structure is set after the function returns to the caller.

Here, touch_buffer() is used to mark the folio/page that owns the buffer head as accessed, but the common search helper for folio/page used by the caller function was optimized to mark the folio/page as accessed when it was reimplemented a long time ago, eliminating the need to call touch_buffer() here in the first place.

So this solves the issue by eliminating the touch_buffer() call itself.(CVE-2024-53131)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:drm: adv7511: Fix use-after-free in adv7533_attach_dsi()The host_node pointer was assigned and freed in adv7533_parse_dt(), andlater, adv7533_attach_dsi() uses the same. Fix this use-after-free issueby dropping of_node_put() in adv7533_parse_dt() and calling of_node_put()in error path of probe() and also in the remove().(CVE-2024-57887)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:ila: serialize calls to nf_register_net_hooks()syzbot found a race in ila_add_mapping() [1]commit 031ae72825ce ( ila: call nf_unregister_net_hooks() sooner )attempted to fix a similar issue.Looking at the syzbot repro, we have concurrent ILA_CMD_ADD commands.Add a mutex to make sure at most one thread is calling nf_register_net_hooks().[1] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in rht_key_hashfn include/linux/rhashtable.h:159 [inline] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __rhashtable_lookup.constprop.0+0x426/0x550 include/linux/rhashtable.h:604Read of size 4 at addr ffff888028f40008 by task dhcpcd/5501CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 5501 Comm: dhcpcd Not tainted 6.13.0-rc4-syzkaller-00054-gd6ef8b40d075 #0Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/13/2024Call Trace: <IRQ> __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline] dump_stack_lvl+0x116/0x1f0 lib/dump_stack.c:120 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline] print_report+0xc3/0x620 mm/kasan/report.c:489 kasan_report+0xd9/0x110 mm/kasan/report.c:602 rht_key_hashfn include/linux/rhashtable.h:159 [inline] __rhashtable_lookup.constprop.0+0x426/0x550 include/linux/rhashtable.h:604 rhashtable_lookup include/linux/rhashtable.h:646 [inline] rhashtable_lookup_fast include/linux/rhashtable.h:672 [inline] ila_lookup_wildcards net/ipv6/ila/ila_xlat.c:127 [inline] ila_xlat_addr net/ipv6/ila/ila_xlat.c:652 [inline] ila_nf_input+0x1ee/0x620 net/ipv6/ila/ila_xlat.c:185 nf_hook_entry_hookfn include/linux/netfilter.h:154 [inline] nf_hook_slow+0xbb/0x200 net/netfilter/core.c:626 nf_hook.constprop.0+0x42e/0x750 include/linux/netfilter.h:269 NF_HOOK include/linux/netfilter.h:312 [inline] ipv6_rcv+0xa4/0x680 net/ipv6/ip6_input.c:309 __netif_receive_skb_one_core+0x12e/0x1e0 net/core/dev.c:5672 __netif_receive_skb+0x1d/0x160 net/core/dev.c:5785 process_backlog+0x443/0x15f0 net/core/dev.c:6117 __napi_poll.constprop.0+0xb7/0x550 net/core/dev.c:6883 napi_poll net/core/dev.c:6952 [inline] net_rx_action+0xa94/0x1010 net/core/dev.c:7074 handle_softirqs+0x213/0x8f0 kernel/softirq.c:561 __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:595 [inline] …

The Linux Kernel, the operating system core itself.

Security Fix(es):

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

usb: xhci: Apply the link chain quirk on NEC isoc endpoints

Two clearly different specimens of NEC uPD720200 (one with start/stop bug, one without) were seen to cause IOMMU faults after some Missed Service Errors. Faulting address is immediately after a transfer ring segment and patched dynamic debug messages revealed that the MSE was received when waiting for a TD near the end of that segment:

[ 1.041954] xhci_hcd: Miss service interval error for slot 1 ep 2 expected TD DMA ffa08fe0 [ 1.042120] xhci_hcd: AMD-Vi: Event logged [IO_PAGE_FAULT domain=0x0005 address=0xffa09000 flags=0x0000] [ 1.042146] xhci_hcd: AMD-Vi: Event logged [IO_PAGE_FAULT domain=0x0005 address=0xffa09040 flags=0x0000]

It gets even funnier if the next page is a ring segment accessible to the HC. Below, it reports MSE in segment at ff1e8000, plows through a zero-filled page at ff1e9000 and starts reporting events for TRBs in page at ff1ea000 every microframe, instead of jumping to seg ff1e6000.

[ 7.041671] xhci_hcd: Miss service interval error for slot 1 ep 2 expected TD DMA ff1e8fe0 [ 7.041999] xhci_hcd: Miss service interval error for slot 1 ep 2 expected TD DMA ff1e8fe0 [ 7.042011] xhci_hcd: WARN: buffer overrun event for slot 1 ep 2 on endpoint [ 7.042028] xhci_hcd: All TDs skipped for slot 1 ep 2. Clear skip flag. [ 7.042134] xhci_hcd: WARN: buffer overrun event for slot 1 ep 2 on endpoint [ 7.042138] xhci_hcd: ERROR Transfer event TRB DMA ptr not part of current TD ep_index 2 comp_code 31 [ 7.042144] xhci_hcd: Looking for event-dma 00000000ff1ea040 trb-start 00000000ff1e6820 trb-end 00000000ff1e6820 [ 7.042259] xhci_hcd: WARN: buffer overrun event for slot 1 ep 2 on endpoint [ 7.042262] xhci_hcd: ERROR Transfer event TRB DMA ptr not part of current TD ep_index 2 comp_code 31 [ 7.042266] xhci_hcd: Looking for event-dma 00000000ff1ea050 trb-start 00000000ff1e6820 trb-end 00000000ff1e6820

At some point completion events change from Isoch Buffer Overrun to Short Packet and the HC finally finds cycle bit mismatch in ff1ec000.

[ 7.098130] xhci_hcd: ERROR Transfer event TRB DMA ptr not part of current TD ep_index 2 comp_code 13 [ 7.098132] xhci_hcd: Looking for event-dma 00000000ff1ecc50 trb-start 00000000ff1e6820 trb-end 00000000ff1e6820 [ 7.098254] xhci_hcd: ERROR Transfer event TRB DMA ptr not part of current TD ep_index 2 comp_code 13 [ 7.098256] xhci_hcd: Looking for event-dma 00000000ff1ecc60 trb-start 00000000ff1e6820 trb-end 00000000ff1e6820 [ 7.098379] xhci_hcd: Overrun event on slot 1 ep 2

It's possible that data from the isochronous device were written to random buffers of pending TDs on other endpoints (either IN or OUT), other devices or even other HCs in the same IOMMU domain.

Lastly, an error from a different USB device on another HC. Was it caused by the above? I don't know, but it may have been. The disk was working without any other issues and generated PCIe traffic to starve the NEC of upstream BW and trigger those MSEs. The two HCs shared one x1 slot by means of a commercial "PCIe splitter" board.

[ 7.162604] usb 10-2: reset SuperSpeed USB device number 3 using xhci_hcd [ 7.178990] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 UNKNOWN(0x2003) Result: hostbyte=0x07 driverbyte=DRIVER_OK cmd_age=0s [ 7.179001] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 CDB: opcode=0x28 28 00 04 02 ae 00 00 02 00 00 [ 7.179004] I/O error, dev sdb, sector 67284480 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x80700 phys_seg 5 prio class 0

Fortunately, it appears that this ridiculous bug is avoided by setting the chain bit of Link TRBs on isochronous rings. Other ancient HCs are known which also expect the bit to be set and they ignore Link TRBs if it's not. Reportedly, 0.95 spec guaranteed that the bit is set.

The bandwidth-starved NEC HC running a 32KB/uframe UVC endpoint reports tens of MSEs per second and runs into the bug within seconds.…

Root has patched CVE-2025-38636 in the linux package for Root:Debian:12. Multiple fixed versions available.

Root has patched CVE-2025-38636 in the linux package for Root:Ubuntu:24.04. Multiple fixed versions available.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rv: Use strings in da monitors tracepoints Using DA monitors tracepoints with KASAN enabled triggers the following warning: BUG: KASAN: global-out-of-bounds in do_trace_event_raw_event_event_da_monitor+0xd6/0x1a0 Read of size 32 at addr ffffffffaada8980 by task ... Call Trace: <TASK> [...] do_trace_event_raw_event_event_da_monitor+0xd6/0x1a0 ? __pfx_do_trace_event_raw_event_event_da_monitor+0x10/0x10 ? trace_event_sncid+0x83/0x200 trace_event_sncid+0x163/0x200 [...] The buggy address belongs to the variable: automaton_snep+0x4e0/0x5e0 This is caused by the tracepoints reading 32 bytes __array instead of __string from the automata definition. Such strings are literals and reading 32 bytes ends up in out of bound memory accesses (e.g. the next automaton's data in this case). The error is harmless as, while printing the string, we stop at the null terminator, but it should still be fixed. Use the __string facilities while defining the tracepoints to avoid reading out of bound memory.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

rv: Use strings in da monitors tracepoints

Using DA monitors tracepoints with KASAN enabled triggers the following warning:

BUG: KASAN: global-out-of-bounds in do_trace_event_raw_event_event_da_monitor+0xd6/0x1a0 Read of size 32 at addr ffffffffaada8980 by task ... Call Trace: <TASK> [...] do_trace_event_raw_event_event_da_monitor+0xd6/0x1a0 ? __pfx_do_trace_event_raw_event_event_da_monitor+0x10/0x10 ? trace_event_sncid+0x83/0x200 trace_event_sncid+0x163/0x200 [...] The buggy address belongs to the variable: automaton_snep+0x4e0/0x5e0

This is caused by the tracepoints reading 32 bytes __array instead of __string from the automata definition. Such strings are literals and reading 32 bytes ends up in out of bound memory accesses (e.g. the next automaton's data in this case). The error is harmless as, while printing the string, we stop at the null terminator, but it should still be fixed.

Use the __string facilities while defining the tracepoints to avoid reading out of bound memory.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

rv: Use strings in da monitors tracepoints

Using DA monitors tracepoints with KASAN enabled triggers the following warning:

BUG: KASAN: global-out-of-bounds in do_trace_event_raw_event_event_da_monitor+0xd6/0x1a0 Read of size 32 at addr ffffffffaada8980 by task ... Call Trace: <TASK> [...] do_trace_event_raw_event_event_da_monitor+0xd6/0x1a0 ? __pfx_do_trace_event_raw_event_event_da_monitor+0x10/0x10 ? trace_event_sncid+0x83/0x200 trace_event_sncid+0x163/0x200 [...] The buggy address belongs to the variable: automaton_snep+0x4e0/0x5e0

This is caused by the tracepoints reading 32 bytes __array instead of __string from the automata definition. Such strings are literals and reading 32 bytes ends up in out of bound memory accesses (e.g. the next automaton's data in this case). The error is harmless as, while printing the string, we stop at the null terminator, but it should still be fixed.

Use the __string facilities while defining the tracepoints to avoid reading out of bound memory.

It was discovered that some Arm processors could complete a broadcast translation lookaside buffer (TLB) invalidation before memory writes made through the invalidated translation were globally observed. A local attacker could possibly use this to write to memory after permission to do so had been revoked, bypassing memory protections or escalating privileges. (CVE-2025-10263)

Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system. This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems:

• ARM64 architecture;
• User-space API (UAPI);
• Kernel build system;
• ARM32 architecture;
• PowerPC architecture;
• RISC-V architecture;
• S390 architecture;
• User-Mode Linux (UML);
• x86 architecture;
• Cryptographic API;
• Intel NPU Driver;
• Compute Acceleration Framework;
• ACPI drivers;
• Drivers core;
• DRBD Distributed Replicated Block Device drivers;
• Rados block device (RBD) driver;
• Ublk userspace block driver;
• Compressed RAM block device driver;
• Bluetooth drivers;
• Hardware crypto device drivers;
• CXL (Compute Express Link) drivers;
• Arm Firmware Framework for ARMv8-A(FFA);
• EFI core;
• FPGA Framework;
• GPU drivers;
• HID subsystem;
• Hardware monitoring drivers;
• I2C subsystem;
• I3C subsystem;
• InfiniBand drivers;
• Input Device core drivers;
• Input Device (Mouse) drivers;
• IOMMU subsystem;
• Multiple devices driver;
• Media drivers;
• Fastrpc Driver;
• Network drivers;
• Mellanox network drivers;
• Microsoft Azure Network Adapter (MANA) driver;
• MediaTek network drivers;
• NVME drivers;
• Operating Performance Points (OPP) driver;
• PCI subsystem;
• PTP clock framework;
• RPMSG subsystem;
• SCSI subsystem;
• SoundWire subsystem;
• SPI subsystem;
• Greybus lights staging drivers;
• Media staging drivers;
• NVIDIA Tegra embedded controller (NVEC) staging driver;
• Realtek RTL8723BS SDIO drivers;
• TCM subsystem;
• Trusted Execution Environment drivers;
• Thunderbolt and USB4 drivers;
• TTY drivers;
• USB Gadget drivers;
• USB Dual Role (OTG-ready) Controller drivers;
• USB Serial drivers;
• vDPA drivers;
• VFIO drivers;
• Virtio Host (VHOST) subsystem;
• Virtio drivers;
• Xen hypervisor drivers;
• 9P distributed file system;
• AFS file system;
• File systems infrastructure;
• BTRFS file system;
• Ceph distributed file system;
• exFAT file system;
• F2FS file system;
• GFS2 file system;
• HFS file system;
• HFS+ file system;
• JFS file system;
• Network file systems library;
• Network file system (NFS) client;
• Network file system (NFS) server daemon;
• NTFS3 file system;
• OCFS2 file system;
• OrangeFS file system;
• SMB network file system;
• BPF subsystem;
• File system encryption (fscrypt);
• Software nodes and device properties;
• IPv4 networking;
• KVM subsystem;
• Mellanox drivers;
• Memory management;
• Networking core;
• Netfilter;
• Socket messages infrastructure;
• MediaTek SoC drivers;
• Sun RPC protocol;
• Network traffic control;
• IPv6 networking;
• Amateur Radio drivers;
• Bluetooth subsystem;
• IP tunnels definitions;
• KCM (Kernel Connection Multiplexor) sockets driver;
• MultiProtocol Label Switching driver;
• TCP network protocol;
• XFRM subsystem;
• Tracing infrastructure;
• io_uring subsystem;
• Control group (cgroup);
• Perf events;
• IRQ subsystem;
• Locking primitives;
• KProbes tracing;
• 9P file system network protocol;
• B.A.T.M.A.N. meshing protocol;
• Ethernet bridge;
• CAN network layer;
• Ceph Core library;
• Handshake API;
• HSR network protocol;
• IFE protocol;
• L2TP protocol;
• MAC80211 subsystem;
• IEEE 802.15.4 subsystem;
• Multipath TCP;
• NFC subsystem;
• Open vSwitch;
• Phonet protocol;
• RDS protocol;
• RxRPC session sockets;
• SCTP protocol;
• SMC…