UBUNTU-CVE-2025-40169

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Reject negative offsets for ALU ops When verifying BPF programs, the checkaluop function validates instructions with ALU operations. The 'offset' field in these instructions is a signed 16-bit integer. The existing check...

CVE-2025-40169 bpf: Reject negative offsets for ALU ops

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Reject negative offsets for ALU ops When verifying BPF programs, the checkaluop function validates instructions with ALU operations. The 'offset' field in these instructions is a signed 16-bit integer. The existing check...

CVE-2025-40151 LoongArch: BPF: No support of struct argument in trampoline programs

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: LoongArch: BPF: No support of struct argument in trampoline programs The current implementation does not support struct argument. This causes a oops when running bpf selftest: $ ./testprogs -a tracingstruct Oops1: CPU -1 Unable t...

CVE-2025-40151

CVE-2025-40151 : The connected documents confirm a concrete Linux kernel issue on LoongArch related to BPF trampoline programs lacking support for struct arguments. The vulnerability description shows an oops scenario when running the bpf selftest, including kernel paging fault traces and RCU-rel...

CVE-2025-40143 bpf: dont report verifier bug for missing bpf_scc_visit on speculative path

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: dont report verifier bug for missing bpfsccvisit on speculative path Syzbot generated a program that triggers a verifierbug call in maybeexitscc. maybeexitscc assumes that, when called for a state with insnidx in some SCC,...

CVE-2025-40123 bpf: Enforce expected_attach_type for tailcall compatibility

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Enforce expectedattachtype for tailcall compatibility Yinhao et al. recently reported: Our fuzzer tool discovered an uninitialized pointer issue in the bpfprogtestrunxdp function within the Linux kernel's BPF subsystem. This...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-40123

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - bpf: Enforce expectedattachtype for tailcall compatibility Yinhao et al. recently reported: Our fuzzer tool discovered an uninitialized pointer issue in the...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-40169

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - bpf: Reject negative offsets for ALU ops When verifying BPF programs, the checkaluop function validates instructions with ALU operations. The 'offset' field in...

PT-2025-46644

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel affected versions not specified Description A flaw exists in the Linux kernel's BPF Berkeley Packet Filter program verification process. Specifically, the check alu op function inadequately validates the 'offset' field within ALU...

Unity Linux 20.1070e Security Update: kernel (UTSA-2025-990789)

The Unity Linux 20 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the UTSA-2025-990789 advisory. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf, sockmap: Fix the sk-skforwardalloc warning of skstreamkillqueues When running testsockmap...

kernel: bpf: Fix deadlock when freeing cgroup storage

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Fix deadlock when freeing cgroup storage The following commit bc235cdb423a "bpf: Prevent deadlock from recursive bpftaskstorageget|delete" first introduced deadlock prevention for fentry/fexit programs attaching on...

kernel: bpf: Fix softlockup in arena_map_free on 64k page kernel

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Fix softlockup in arenamapfree on 64k page kernel On an aarch64 kernel with CONFIGPAGESIZE64KB=y, arenahtab tests cause a segmentation fault and soft lockup. The same failure is not observed with 4k pages on aarch64. It turn...

kernel: bpf: Fix UAF via mismatching bpf_prog/attachment RCU flavors

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Fix UAF via mismatching bpfprog/attachment RCU flavors Uprobes always use bpfprogrunarrayuprobe under tasks-trace-RCU protection. But it is possible to attach a non-sleepable BPF program to a uprobe, and non-sleepable BPF...

kernel: nfp: bpf: Add check for nfp_app_ctrl_msg_alloc()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nfp: bpf: Add check for nfpappctrlmsgalloc Add check for the return value of nfpappctrlmsgalloc in nfpbpfcmsgalloc to prevent null pointer dereference...

kernel: bpf: avoid holding freeze_mutex during mmap operation

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: avoid holding freezemutex during mmap operation We use map-freezemutex to prevent races between mapfreeze and memory mapping BPF map contents with writable permissions. The way we naively do this means we'll hold freezemutex...

kernel: bpf: avoid holding freeze_mutex during mmap operation

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: avoid holding freezemutex during mmap operation We use map-freezemutex to prevent races between mapfreeze and memory mapping BPF map contents with writable permissions. The way we naively do this means we'll hold freezemutex...

kernel: bpf: Fix UAF via mismatching bpf_prog/attachment RCU flavors

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Fix UAF via mismatching bpfprog/attachment RCU flavors Uprobes always use bpfprogrunarrayuprobe under tasks-trace-RCU protection. But it is possible to attach a non-sleepable BPF program to a uprobe, and non-sleepable BPF...

kernel: sched_ext: bpf_iter_scx_dsq_new() should always initialize iterator

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: schedext: bpfiterscxdsqnew should always initialize iterator BPF programs may call next and destroy on BPF iterators even after new returns an error value e.g. bpfforeach macro ignores error returns from new. bpfiterscxdsqnew cou...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from th...

Oracle Linux 10 : kernel (ELSA-2025-19962)

The remote Oracle Linux 10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2025-19962 advisory. - wifi: cfg80211: fix use-after-free in cmpbss CKI Backport Bot RHEL-122878 CVE-2025-39864 - arm64: bpf: Only mitigate cBPF programs loaded by...