Security Bulletin
Summary
Multiple components with known vulnerabilities were addressed in IBM QRadar SIEM in UP15 IF01
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2025-38129
DESCRIPTION: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
page_pool: Fix use-after-free in page_pool_recycle_in_ring
syzbot reported a uaf in page_pool_recycle_in_ring:
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in lock_release+0x151/0xa30 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5862
Read of size 8 at addr ffff8880286045a0 by task syz.0.284/6943
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 6943 Comm: syz.0.284 Not tainted 6.13.0-rc3-syzkaller-gdfa94ce54f41 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/13/2024
Call Trace:
TASK
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0x241/0x360 lib/dump_stack.c:120
print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
print_report+0x169/0x550 mm/kasan/report.c:489
kasan_report+0x143/0x180 mm/kasan/report.c:602
lock_release+0x151/0xa30 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5862
__raw_spin_unlock_bh include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:165 [inline]
_raw_spin_unlock_bh+0x1b/0x40 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:210
spin_unlock_bh include/linux/spinlock.h:396 [inline]
ptr_ring_produce_bh include/linux/ptr_ring.h:164 [inline]
page_pool_recycle_in_ring net/core/page_pool.c:707 [inline]
page_pool_put_unrefed_netmem+0x748/0xb00 net/core/page_pool.c:826
page_pool_put_netmem include/net/page_pool/helpers.h:323 [inline]
page_pool_put_full_netmem include/net/page_pool/helpers.h:353 [inline]
napi_pp_put_page+0x149/0x2b0 net/core/skbuff.c:1036
skb_pp_recycle net/core/skbuff.c:1047 [inline]
skb_free_head net/core/skbuff.c:1094 [inline]
skb_release_data+0x6c4/0x8a0 net/core/skbuff.c:1125
skb_release_all net/core/skbuff.c:1190 [inline]
__kfree_skb net/core/skbuff.c:1204 [inline]
sk_skb_reason_drop+0x1c9/0x380 net/core/skbuff.c:1242
kfree_skb_reason include/linux/skbuff.h:1263 [inline]
__skb_queue_purge_reason include/linux/skbuff.h:3343 [inline]
root cause is:
page_pool_recycle_in_ring
ptr_ring_produce
spin_lock(&r-producer_lock);
WRITE_ONCE(r-queue[r-producer++], ptr)
//recycle last page to pool
page_pool_release
page_pool_scrub
page_pool_empty_ring
ptr_ring_consume
page_pool_return_page //release all page
__page_pool_destroy
free_percpu(pool-recycle_stats);
free(pool) //free
spin_unlock(&r-producer_lock); //pool-ring uaf read
recycle_stat_inc(pool, ring);
page_pool can be free while page pool recycle the last page in ring.
Add producer-lock barrier to page_pool_release to prevent the page
pool from being free before all pages have been recycled.
recycle_stat_inc() is empty when CONFIG_PAGE_POOL_STATS is not
enabled, which will trigger Wempty-body build warning. Add definition
for pool stat macro to fix warning.
CWE: CWE-416: Use After Free
CVSS Source: NVD
CVSS Base score: 7.8
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2025-38248
DESCRIPTION: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bridge: mcast: Fix use-after-free during router port configuration
The bridge maintains a global list of ports behind which a multicast
router resides. The list is consulted during forwarding to ensure
multicast packets are forwarded to these ports even if the ports are not
member in the matching MDB entry.
When per-VLAN multicast snooping is enabled, the per-port multicast
context is disabled on each port and the port is removed from the global
router port list:
# ip link add name br1 up type bridge vlan_filtering 1 mcast_snooping 1
# ip link add name dummy1 up master br1 type dummy
# ip link set dev dummy1 type bridge_slave mcast_router 2
$ bridge -d mdb show | grep router
router ports on br1: dummy1
# ip link set dev br1 type bridge mcast_vlan_snooping 1
$ bridge -d mdb show | grep router
However, the port can be re-added to the global list even when per-VLAN
multicast snooping is enabled:
# ip link set dev dummy1 type bridge_slave mcast_router 0
# ip link set dev dummy1 type bridge_slave mcast_router 2
$ bridge -d mdb show | grep router
router ports on br1: dummy1
Since commit 4b30ae9adb04 ("net: bridge: mcast: re-implement
br_multicast_{enable, disable}_port functions"), when per-VLAN multicast
snooping is enabled, multicast disablement on a port will disable the
per-{port, VLAN} multicast contexts and not the per-port one. As a
result, a port will remain in the global router port list even after it
is deleted. This will lead to a use-after-free [1] when the list is
traversed (when adding a new port to the list, for example):
# ip link del dev dummy1
# ip link add name dummy2 up master br1 type dummy
# ip link set dev dummy2 type bridge_slave mcast_router 2
Similarly, stale entries can also be found in the per-VLAN router port
list. When per-VLAN multicast snooping is disabled, the per-{port, VLAN}
contexts are disabled on each port and the port is removed from the
per-VLAN router port list:
# ip link add name br1 up type bridge vlan_filtering 1 mcast_snooping 1 mcast_vlan_snooping 1
# ip link add name dummy1 up master br1 type dummy
# bridge vlan add vid 2 dev dummy1
# bridge vlan global set vid 2 dev br1 mcast_snooping 1
# bridge vlan set vid 2 dev dummy1 mcast_router 2
$ bridge vlan global show dev br1 vid 2 | grep router
router ports: dummy1
# ip link set dev br1 type bridge mcast_vlan_snooping 0
$ bridge vlan global show dev br1 vid 2 | grep router
However, the port can be re-added to the per-VLAN list even when
per-VLAN multicast snooping is disabled:
# bridge vlan set vid 2 dev dummy1 mcast_router 0
# bridge vlan set vid 2 dev dummy1 mcast_router 2
$ bridge vlan global show dev br1 vid 2 | grep router
router ports: dummy1
When the VLAN is deleted from the port, the per-{port, VLAN} multicast
context will not be disabled since multicast snooping is not enabled
on the VLAN. As a result, the port will remain in the per-VLAN router
port list even after it is no longer member in the VLAN. This will lead
to a use-after-free [2] when the list is traversed (when adding a new
port to the list, for example):
# ip link add name dummy2 up master br1 type dummy
# bridge vlan add vid 2 dev dummy2
# bridge vlan del vid 2 dev dummy1
# bridge vlan set vid 2 dev dummy2 mcast_router 2
Fix these issues by removing the port from the relevant (global or
per-VLAN) router port list in br_multicast_port_ctx_deinit(). The
function is invoked during port deletion with the per-port multicast
context and during VLAN deletion with the per-{port, VLAN} multicast
context.
Note that deleting the multicast router timer is not enough as it only
takes care of the temporary multicast router states (1 or 3) and not the
permanent one (2).
[1]
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in br_multicast_add_router.part.0+0x3f1/0x560
Write of size 8 at addr ffff888004a67328 by task ip/384
[...]
Call Trace:
TASK
dump_stack
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CWE: CWE-416: Use After Free
CVSS Source: NVD
CVSS Base score: 7.8
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2025-40064
DESCRIPTION: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
smc: Fix use-after-free in __pnet_find_base_ndev().
syzbot reported use-after-free of net_device in __pnet_find_base_ndev(),
which was called during connect(). [0]
smc_pnet_find_ism_resource() fetches sk_dst_get(sk)-dev and passes
down to pnet_find_base_ndev(), where RTNL is held. Then, UAF happened
at __pnet_find_base_ndev() when the dev is first used.
This means dev had already been freed before acquiring RTNL in
pnet_find_base_ndev().
While dev is going away, dst-dev could be swapped with blackhole_netdev,
and the dev's refcnt by dst will be released.
We must hold dev's refcnt before calling smc_pnet_find_ism_resource().
Also, smc_pnet_find_roce_resource() has the same problem.
Let's use __sk_dst_get() and dst_dev_rcu() in the two functions.
[0]:
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __pnet_find_base_ndev+0x1b1/0x1c0 net/smc/smc_pnet.c:926
Read of size 1 at addr ffff888036bac33a by task syz.0.3632/18609
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 18609 Comm: syz.0.3632 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 08/18/2025
Call Trace:
TASK
dump_stack_lvl+0x189/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:120
print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
print_report+0xca/0x240 mm/kasan/report.c:482
kasan_report+0x118/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:595
__pnet_find_base_ndev+0x1b1/0x1c0 net/smc/smc_pnet.c:926
pnet_find_base_ndev net/smc/smc_pnet.c:946 [inline]
smc_pnet_find_ism_by_pnetid net/smc/smc_pnet.c:1103 [inline]
smc_pnet_find_ism_resource+0xef/0x390 net/smc/smc_pnet.c:1154
smc_find_ism_device net/smc/af_smc.c:1030 [inline]
smc_find_proposal_devices net/smc/af_smc.c:1115 [inline]
__smc_connect+0x372/0x1890 net/smc/af_smc.c:1545
smc_connect+0x877/0xd90 net/smc/af_smc.c:1715
__sys_connect_file net/socket.c:2086 [inline]
__sys_connect+0x313/0x440 net/socket.c:2105
__do_sys_connect net/socket.c:2111 [inline]
__se_sys_connect net/socket.c:2108 [inline]
__x64_sys_connect+0x7a/0x90 net/socket.c:2108
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xfa/0x3b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f47cbf8eba9
Code: ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 48 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 a8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007f47ccdb1038 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002a
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f47cc1d5fa0 RCX: 00007f47cbf8eba9
RDX: 0000000000000010 RSI: 0000200000000280 RDI: 000000000000000b
RBP: 00007f47cc011e19 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f47cc1d6038 R14: 00007f47cc1d5fa0 R15: 00007ffc512f8aa8
/TASK
The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xffff888036bacd00 pfn:0x36bac
flags: 0xfff00000000000(node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
raw: 00fff00000000000 ffffea0001243d08 ffff8880b863fdc0 0000000000000000
raw: ffff888036bacd00 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected
page_owner tracks the page as freed
page last allocated via order 2, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0x446dc0(GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT|__GFP_ZERO|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL|__GFP_COMP), pid 16741, tgid 16741 (syz-executor), ts 343313197788, free_ts 380670750466
set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
post_alloc_hook+0x240/0x2a0 mm/page_alloc.c:1851
prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1859 [inline]
get_page_from_freelist+0x21e4/0x22c0 mm/page_alloc.c:3858
__alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x181/0x370 mm/page_alloc.c:5148
alloc_pages_mpol+0x232/0x4a0 mm/mempolicy.c:2416
___kmalloc_large_node+0x5f/0x1b0 mm/slub.c:4317
__kmalloc_large_node_noprof+0x18/0x90 mm/slub.c:4348
__do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:4364 [inline]
__kvmalloc_node
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CVSS Source: RedHat
CVSS Base score: 7.1
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2025-68800
DESCRIPTION: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mlxsw: spectrum_mr: Fix use-after-free when updating multicast route stats
Cited commit added a dedicated mutex (instead of RTNL) to protect the
multicast route list, so that it will not change while the driver
periodically traverses it in order to update the kernel about multicast
route stats that were queried from the device.
One instance of list entry deletion (during route replace) was missed
and it can result in a use-after-free [1].
Fix by acquiring the mutex before deleting the entry from the list and
releasing it afterwards.
[1]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in mlxsw_sp_mr_stats_update+0x4a5/0x540 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_mr.c:1006 [mlxsw_spectrum]
Read of size 8 at addr ffff8881523c2fa8 by task kworker/2:5/22043
CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 22043 Comm: kworker/2:5 Not tainted 6.18.0-rc1-custom-g1a3d6d7cd014 #1 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: Mellanox Technologies Ltd. MSN2010/SA002610, BIOS 5.6.5 08/24/2017
Workqueue: mlxsw_core mlxsw_sp_mr_stats_update [mlxsw_spectrum]
Call Trace:
TASK
dump_stack_lvl+0xba/0x110
print_report+0x174/0x4f5
kasan_report+0xdf/0x110
mlxsw_sp_mr_stats_update+0x4a5/0x540 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_mr.c:1006 [mlxsw_spectrum]
process_one_work+0x9cc/0x18e0
worker_thread+0x5df/0xe40
kthread+0x3b8/0x730
ret_from_fork+0x3e9/0x560
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
/TASK
Allocated by task 29933:
kasan_save_stack+0x30/0x50
kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30
__kasan_kmalloc+0x8f/0xa0
mlxsw_sp_mr_route_add+0xd8/0x4770 [mlxsw_spectrum]
mlxsw_sp_router_fibmr_event_work+0x371/0xad0 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_router.c:7965 [mlxsw_spectrum]
process_one_work+0x9cc/0x18e0
worker_thread+0x5df/0xe40
kthread+0x3b8/0x730
ret_from_fork+0x3e9/0x560
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
Freed by task 29933:
kasan_save_stack+0x30/0x50
kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30
__kasan_save_free_info+0x3b/0x70
__kasan_slab_free+0x43/0x70
kfree+0x14e/0x700
mlxsw_sp_mr_route_add+0x2dea/0x4770 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_mr.c:444 [mlxsw_spectrum]
mlxsw_sp_router_fibmr_event_work+0x371/0xad0 drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum_router.c:7965 [mlxsw_spectrum]
process_one_work+0x9cc/0x18e0
worker_thread+0x5df/0xe40
kthread+0x3b8/0x730
ret_from_fork+0x3e9/0x560
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
CVSS Source: RedHat
CVSS Base score: 7.3
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2026-23074
DESCRIPTION: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/sched: Enforce that teql can only be used as root qdisc
Design intent of teql is that it is only supposed to be used as root qdisc.
We need to check for that constraint.
Although not important, I will describe the scenario that unearthed this
issue for the curious.
GangMin Kim km.kim1503@gmail.com managed to concot a scenario as follows:
ROOT qdisc 1:0 (QFQ)
├── class 1:1 (weight=15, lmax=16384) netem with delay 6.4s
└── class 1:2 (weight=1, lmax=1514) teql
GangMin sends a packet which is enqueued to 1:1 (netem).
Any invocation of dequeue by QFQ from this class will not return a packet
until after 6.4s. In the meantime, a second packet is sent and it lands on
1:2. teql's enqueue will return success and this will activate class 1:2.
Main issue is that teql only updates the parent visible qlen (sch-q.qlen)
at dequeue. Since QFQ will only call dequeue if peek succeeds (and teql's
peek always returns NULL), dequeue will never be called and thus the qlen
will remain as 0. With that in mind, when GangMin updates 1:2's lmax value,
the qfq_change_class calls qfq_deact_rm_from_agg. Since the child qdisc's
qlen was not incremented, qfq fails to deactivate the class, but still
frees its pointers from the aggregate. So when the first packet is
rescheduled after 6.4 seconds (netem's delay), a dangling pointer is
accessed causing GangMin's causing a UAF.
CWE: CWE-416: Use After Free
CVSS Source: NVD
CVSS Base score: 7.8
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2025-69419
DESCRIPTION: Issue summary: Calling PKCS12_get_friendlyname() function on a maliciously
crafted PKCS#12 file with a BMPString (UTF-16BE) friendly name containing
non-ASCII BMP code point can trigger a one byte write before the allocated
buffer.
Impact summary: The out-of-bounds write can cause a memory corruption
which can have various consequences including a Denial of Service.
The OPENSSL_uni2utf8() function performs a two-pass conversion of a PKCS#12
BMPString (UTF-16BE) to UTF-8. In the second pass, when emitting UTF-8 bytes,
the helper function bmp_to_utf8() incorrectly forwards the remaining UTF-16
source byte count as the destination buffer capacity to UTF8_putc(). For BMP
code points above U+07FF, UTF-8 requires three bytes, but the forwarded
capacity can be just two bytes. UTF8_putc() then returns -1, and this negative
value is added to the output length without validation, causing the
length to become negative. The subsequent trailing NUL byte is then written
at a negative offset, causing write outside of heap allocated buffer.
The vulnerability is reachable via the public PKCS12_get_friendlyname() API
when parsing attacker-controlled PKCS#12 files. While PKCS12_parse() uses a
different code path that avoids this issue, PKCS12_get_friendlyname() directly
invokes the vulnerable function. Exploitation requires an attacker to provide
a malicious PKCS#12 file to be parsed by the application and the attacker
can just trigger a one zero byte write before the allocated buffer.
For that reason the issue was assessed as Low severity according to our
Security Policy.
The FIPS modules in 3.6, 3.5, 3.4, 3.3 and 3.0 are not affected by this issue,
as the PKCS#12 implementation is outside the OpenSSL FIPS module boundary.
OpenSSL 3.6, 3.5, 3.4, 3.3, 3.0 and 1.1.1 are vulnerable to this issue.
OpenSSL 1.0.2 is not affected by this issue.
CWE: CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write
CVSS Source: CISA ADP
CVSS Base score: 7.4
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2025-12818
DESCRIPTION: Integer wraparound in multiple PostgreSQL libpq client library functions allows an application input provider or network peer to cause libpq to undersize an allocation and write out-of-bounds by hundreds of megabytes. This results in a segmentation fault for the application using libpq. Versions before PostgreSQL 18.1, 17.7, 16.11, 15.15, 14.20, and 13.23 are affected.
CWE: CWE-190: Integer Overflow or Wraparound
CVSS Source: PostgreSQL
CVSS Base score: 5.9
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2025-71085
DESCRIPTION: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ipv6: BUG() in pskb_expand_head() as part of calipso_skbuff_setattr()
There exists a kernel oops caused by a BUG_ON(nhead 0) at
net/core/skbuff.c:2232 in pskb_expand_head().
This bug is triggered as part of the calipso_skbuff_setattr()
routine when skb_cow() is passed headroom INT_MAX
(i.e. (int)(skb_headroom(skb) + len_delta) 0).
The root cause of the bug is due to an implicit integer cast in
__skb_cow(). The check (headroom skb_headroom(skb)) is meant to ensure
that delta = headroom - skb_headroom(skb) is never negative, otherwise
we will trigger a BUG_ON in pskb_expand_head(). However, if
headroom INT_MAX and delta = -NET_SKB_PAD, the check passes, delta
becomes negative, and pskb_expand_head() is passed a negative value for
nhead.
Fix the trigger condition in calipso_skbuff_setattr(). Avoid passing
"negative" headroom sizes to skb_cow() within calipso_skbuff_setattr()
by only using skb_cow() to grow headroom.
PoC:
Using `netlabelctl` tool:
netlabelctl map del default
netlabelctl calipso add pass doi:7
netlabelctl map add default address:0::1/128 protocol:calipso,7
Then run the following PoC:
int fd = socket(AF_INET6, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_UDP);
// setup msghdr
int cmsg_size = 2;
int cmsg_len = 0x60;
struct msghdr msg;
struct sockaddr_in6 dest_addr;
struct cmsghdr * cmsg = (struct cmsghdr *) calloc(1,
sizeof(struct cmsghdr) + cmsg_len);
msg.msg_name = &dest_addr;
msg.msg_namelen = sizeof(dest_addr);
msg.msg_iov = NULL;
msg.msg_iovlen = 0;
msg.msg_control = cmsg;
msg.msg_controllen = cmsg_len;
msg.msg_flags = 0;
// setup sockaddr
dest_addr.sin6_family = AF_INET6;
dest_addr.sin6_port = htons(31337);
dest_addr.sin6_flowinfo = htonl(31337);
dest_addr.sin6_addr = in6addr_loopback;
dest_addr.sin6_scope_id = 31337;
// setup cmsghdr
cmsg-cmsg_len = cmsg_len;
cmsg-cmsg_level = IPPROTO_IPV6;
cmsg-cmsg_type = IPV6_HOPOPTS;
char * hop_hdr = (char *)cmsg + sizeof(struct cmsghdr);
hop_hdr[1] = 0x9; //set hop size - (0x9 + 1) * 8 = 80
sendmsg(fd, &msg, 0);
CWE: CWE-617: Reachable Assertion
CVSS Source: NVD
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2026-23001
DESCRIPTION: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
macvlan: fix possible UAF in macvlan_forward_source()
Add RCU protection on (struct macvlan_source_entry)-vlan.
Whenever macvlan_hash_del_source() is called, we must clear
entry-vlan pointer before RCU grace period starts.
This allows macvlan_forward_source() to skip over
entries queued for freeing.
Note that macvlan_dev are already RCU protected, as they
are embedded in a standard netdev (netdev_priv(ndev)).
https: //lore.kernel.org/netdev/695fb1e8.050a0220.1c677c.039f.GAE@google.com/T/#u
CWE: CWE-416: Use After Free
CVSS Source: NVD
CVSS Base score: 7.8
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2026-23097
DESCRIPTION: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
migrate: correct lock ordering for hugetlb file folios
Syzbot has found a deadlock (analyzed by Lance Yang):
1) Task (5749): Holds folio_lock, then tries to acquire i_mmap_rwsem(read lock).
2) Task (5754): Holds i_mmap_rwsem(write lock), then tries to acquire
folio_lock.
migrate_pages()
- migrate_hugetlbs()
- unmap_and_move_huge_page() - Takes folio_lock!
- remove_migration_ptes()
- __rmap_walk_file()
- i_mmap_lock_read() - Waits for i_mmap_rwsem(read lock)!
hugetlbfs_fallocate()
- hugetlbfs_punch_hole() - Takes i_mmap_rwsem(write lock)!
- hugetlbfs_zero_partial_page()
- filemap_lock_hugetlb_folio()
- filemap_lock_folio()
- __filemap_get_folio - Waits for folio_lock!
The migration path is the one taking locks in the wrong order according to
the documentation at the top of mm/rmap.c. So expand the scope of the
existing i_mmap_lock to cover the calls to remove_migration_ptes() too.
This is (mostly) how it used to be after commit c0d0381ade79. That was
removed by 336bf30eb765 for both file & anon hugetlb pages when it should
only have been removed for anon hugetlb pages.
CVSS Source: NVD
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
Affected Products and Versions
| Affected Product(s) | Version(s) |
| QRadar | 7.5.0 - 7.5.0 UP15 |
Remediation/Fixes
IBM strongly encourages customers to update their systems promptly.
| Product | Version | Fix |
| IBM QRadar SIEM | 7.5.0 | 7.5.0 UP15 IF01 |
Workarounds and Mitigations
None
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References
Acknowledgement
Change History
31 Mar 2026: Initial Publication
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Modified date:
31 March 2026
Initial Publish date:
31 March 2026
UID
ibm17268179