Threats Tagged 'cve-2025-40223'

A high-severity vulnerability (CVE-2025-40214) in the Linux kernel's Unix domain sockets subsystem was resolved by initializing scc_index in unix_add_edge(). This flaw could lead to privilege escalation on Container-Optimized OS nodes, affecting multiple Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster types except those using GKE Sandbox. Patch versions have been released for various Container-Optimized OS node pools and Ubuntu Linux kernel packages. Bare metal GDC software is not affected. Users are advised to update to the specified patched kernel versions and reboot to apply fixes.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: most: usb: Fix use-after-free in hdm_disconnect hdm_disconnect() calls most_deregister_interface(), which eventually unregisters the MOST interface device with device_unregister(iface->dev). If that drops the last reference, the device core may call release_mdev() immediately while hdm_disconnect() is still executing. The old code also freed several mdev-owned allocations in hdm_disconnect() and then performed additional put_device() calls. Depending on refcount order, this could lead to use-after-free or double-free when release_mdev() ran (or when unregister paths also performed puts). Fix by moving the frees of mdev-owned allocations into release_mdev(), so they happen exactly once when the device is truly released, and by dropping the extra put_device() calls in hdm_disconnect() that are redundant after device_unregister() and most_deregister_interface(). This addresses the KASAN slab-use-after-free reported by syzbot in hdm_disconnect(). See report and stack traces in the bug link below.