vulnerability

Oracle Linux: CVE-2025-21633: ELSA-2025-7423: kernel security update (IMPORTANT)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jan 19, 2025
Added
May 26, 2025
Modified
May 26, 2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
io_uring/sqpoll: zero sqd->thread on tctx errors
Syzkeller reports:
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in thread_group_cputime+0x409/0x700 kernel/sched/cputime.c:341
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88803578c510 by task syz.2.3223/27552
Call Trace:
<TASK>
...
kasan_report+0x143/0x180 mm/kasan/report.c:602
thread_group_cputime+0x409/0x700 kernel/sched/cputime.c:341
thread_group_cputime_adjusted+0xa6/0x340 kernel/sched/cputime.c:639
getrusage+0x1000/0x1340 kernel/sys.c:1863
io_uring_show_fdinfo+0xdfe/0x1770 io_uring/fdinfo.c:197
seq_show+0x608/0x770 fs/proc/fd.c:68
...
That's due to sqd->task not being cleared properly in cases where
SQPOLL task tctx setup fails, which can essentially only happen with
fault injection to insert allocation errors.

Solution

oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel
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