ghsa-52rq-cpwv-rvvm
Vulnerability from github
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/mlx5: fs, fix UAF in flow counter release
Fix a kernel trace [1] caused by releasing an HWS action of a local flow counter in mlx5_cmd_hws_delete_fte(), where the HWS action refcount and mutex were not initialized and the counter struct could already be freed when deleting the rule.
Fix it by adding the missing initializations and adding refcount for the local flow counter struct.
[1] Kernel log: Call Trace: dump_stack_lvl+0x34/0x48 mlx5_fs_put_hws_action.part.0.cold+0x21/0x94 [mlx5_core] mlx5_fc_put_hws_action+0x96/0xad [mlx5_core] mlx5_fs_destroy_fs_actions+0x8b/0x152 [mlx5_core] mlx5_cmd_hws_delete_fte+0x5a/0xa0 [mlx5_core] del_hw_fte+0x1ce/0x260 [mlx5_core] mlx5_del_flow_rules+0x12d/0x240 [mlx5_core] ? ttwu_queue_wakelist+0xf4/0x110 mlx5_ib_destroy_flow+0x103/0x1b0 [mlx5_ib] uverbs_free_flow+0x20/0x50 [ib_uverbs] destroy_hw_idr_uobject+0x1b/0x50 [ib_uverbs] uverbs_destroy_uobject+0x34/0x1a0 [ib_uverbs] uobj_destroy+0x3c/0x80 [ib_uverbs] ib_uverbs_run_method+0x23e/0x360 [ib_uverbs] ? uverbs_finalize_object+0x60/0x60 [ib_uverbs] ib_uverbs_cmd_verbs+0x14f/0x2c0 [ib_uverbs] ? do_tty_write+0x1a9/0x270 ? file_tty_write.constprop.0+0x98/0xc0 ? new_sync_write+0xfc/0x190 ib_uverbs_ioctl+0xd7/0x160 [ib_uverbs] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x87/0xc0 do_syscall_64+0x59/0x90
{
"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2025-39979"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2025-10-15T08:15:35Z",
"severity": null
},
"details": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/mlx5: fs, fix UAF in flow counter release\n\nFix a kernel trace [1] caused by releasing an HWS action of a local flow\ncounter in mlx5_cmd_hws_delete_fte(), where the HWS action refcount and\nmutex were not initialized and the counter struct could already be freed\nwhen deleting the rule.\n\nFix it by adding the missing initializations and adding refcount for the\nlocal flow counter struct.\n\n[1] Kernel log:\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n dump_stack_lvl+0x34/0x48\n mlx5_fs_put_hws_action.part.0.cold+0x21/0x94 [mlx5_core]\n mlx5_fc_put_hws_action+0x96/0xad [mlx5_core]\n mlx5_fs_destroy_fs_actions+0x8b/0x152 [mlx5_core]\n mlx5_cmd_hws_delete_fte+0x5a/0xa0 [mlx5_core]\n del_hw_fte+0x1ce/0x260 [mlx5_core]\n mlx5_del_flow_rules+0x12d/0x240 [mlx5_core]\n ? ttwu_queue_wakelist+0xf4/0x110\n mlx5_ib_destroy_flow+0x103/0x1b0 [mlx5_ib]\n uverbs_free_flow+0x20/0x50 [ib_uverbs]\n destroy_hw_idr_uobject+0x1b/0x50 [ib_uverbs]\n uverbs_destroy_uobject+0x34/0x1a0 [ib_uverbs]\n uobj_destroy+0x3c/0x80 [ib_uverbs]\n ib_uverbs_run_method+0x23e/0x360 [ib_uverbs]\n ? uverbs_finalize_object+0x60/0x60 [ib_uverbs]\n ib_uverbs_cmd_verbs+0x14f/0x2c0 [ib_uverbs]\n ? do_tty_write+0x1a9/0x270\n ? file_tty_write.constprop.0+0x98/0xc0\n ? new_sync_write+0xfc/0x190\n ib_uverbs_ioctl+0xd7/0x160 [ib_uverbs]\n __x64_sys_ioctl+0x87/0xc0\n do_syscall_64+0x59/0x90",
"id": "GHSA-52rq-cpwv-rvvm",
"modified": "2025-10-15T09:30:17Z",
"published": "2025-10-15T09:30:17Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-39979"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3c77f6d244188c3fb11f6aec40bbfe884f1803b5"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6043819e707cefb1c9e59d6e431dcfa735c4f975"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": []
}
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