1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-7310-1

USN-7310-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Publication date

28 February 2025

Overview

Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel.

Releases

Packages

Details

Attila Szász discovered that the HFS+ file system implementation in the
Linux Kernel contained a heap overflow vulnerability. An attacker could use
a specially crafted file system image that, when mounted, could cause a
denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2025-0927)

Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel.
An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system.
This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems:

  • ARM32 architecture;
  • ARM64 architecture;
  • PowerPC architecture;
  • RISC-V architecture;
  • S390 architecture;
  • SuperH RISC architecture;
  • User-Mode Linux (UML);
  • x86 architecture;
  • Block layer subsystem;
  • Cryptographic API;
  • Compute Acceleration Framework;
  • ACPI drivers;
  • Drivers core;
  • ATA over ethernet (AOE)...

Attila Szász discovered that the HFS+ file system implementation in the
Linux Kernel contained a heap overflow vulnerability. An attacker could use
a specially crafted file system image that, when mounted, could cause a
denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2025-0927)

Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel.
An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system.
This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems:

  • ARM32 architecture;
  • ARM64 architecture;
  • PowerPC architecture;
  • RISC-V architecture;
  • S390 architecture;
  • SuperH RISC architecture;
  • User-Mode Linux (UML);
  • x86 architecture;
  • Block layer subsystem;
  • Cryptographic API;
  • Compute Acceleration Framework;
  • ACPI drivers;
  • Drivers core;
  • ATA over ethernet (AOE) driver;
  • RAM backed block device driver;
  • Network block device driver;
  • Ublk userspace block driver;
  • Compressed RAM block device driver;
  • Bluetooth drivers;
  • TPM device driver;
  • Clock framework and drivers;
  • Data acquisition framework and drivers;
  • CPU frequency scaling framework;
  • Hardware crypto device drivers;
  • CXL (Compute Express Link) drivers;
  • DAX dirext access to differentiated memory framework;
  • Buffer Sharing and Synchronization framework;
  • EDAC drivers;
  • FireWire subsystem;
  • ARM SCMI message protocol;
  • ARM SCPI message protocol;
  • EFI core;
  • Qualcomm firmware drivers;
  • GPIO subsystem;
  • GPU drivers;
  • HID subsystem;
  • I2C subsystem;
  • I3C subsystem;
  • IIO ADC drivers;
  • IIO subsystem;
  • InfiniBand drivers;
  • Input Device core drivers;
  • IOMMU subsystem;
  • IRQ chip drivers;
  • Mailbox framework;
  • Multiple devices driver;
  • Media drivers;
  • Multifunction device drivers;
  • MMC subsystem;
  • MTD block device drivers;
  • Ethernet bonding driver;
  • Network drivers;
  • Mellanox network drivers;
  • STMicroelectronics network drivers;
  • NTB driver;
  • Virtio pmem driver;
  • NVME drivers;
  • Parport drivers;
  • PCI subsystem;
  • Alibaba DDR Sub-System Driveway PMU driver;
  • PHY drivers;
  • Pin controllers subsystem;
  • x86 platform drivers;
  • i.MX PM domains;
  • Powercap sysfs driver;
  • Voltage and Current Regulator drivers;
  • Remote Processor subsystem;
  • StarFive reset controller drivers;
  • Real Time Clock drivers;
  • SCSI subsystem;
  • SuperH / SH-Mobile drivers;
  • QCOM SoC drivers;
  • Xilinx SoC drivers;
  • SPI subsystem;
  • Direct Digital Synthesis drivers;
  • Media staging drivers;
  • TCM subsystem;
  • Thermal drivers;
  • Thunderbolt and USB4 drivers;
  • TTY drivers;
  • UFS subsystem;
  • USB Device Class drivers;
  • DesignWare USB3 driver;
  • USB Gadget drivers;
  • USB Host Controller drivers;
  • USB Dual Role (OTG-ready) Controller drivers;
  • USB Serial drivers;
  • USB Type-C support driver;
  • USB Type-C Port Controller Manager driver;
  • TI TPS6598x USB Power Delivery controller driver;
  • USB Type-C Connector System Software Interface driver;
  • vDPA drivers;
  • VFIO drivers;
  • Virtio Host (VHOST) subsystem;
  • Framebuffer layer;
  • Virtio drivers;
  • Xen hypervisor drivers;
  • AFS file system;
  • BTRFS file system;
  • File systems infrastructure;
  • Ceph distributed file system;
  • EROFS file system;
  • Ext4 file system;
  • F2FS file system;
  • GFS2 file system;
  • JFS file system;
  • Network file systems library;
  • Network file system (NFS) client;
  • Network file system (NFS) server daemon;
  • NILFS2 file system;
  • File system notification infrastructure;
  • NTFS3 file system;
  • Proc file system;
  • SMB network file system;
  • UBI file system;
  • BPF subsystem;
  • Network file system (NFS) superblock;
  • Virtio network driver;
  • Bluetooth subsystem;
  • Network traffic control;
  • Network sockets;
  • TCP network protocol;
  • Tracing infrastructure;
  • User-space API (UAPI);
  • Kernel init infrastructure;
  • io_uring subsystem;
  • IPC subsystem;
  • Perf events;
  • Kernel fork() syscall;
  • Kernel thread helper (kthread);
  • Padata parallel execution mechanism;
  • RCU subsystem;
  • Arbitrary resource management;
  • Scheduler infrastructure;
  • Signal handling mechanism;
  • Static call mechanism;
  • Task handling mechanism;
  • Timer substystem drivers;
  • Maple Tree data structure library;
  • Memory management;
  • 9P file system network protocol;
  • Ethernet bridge;
  • CAN network layer;
  • Networking core;
  • DCCP (Datagram Congestion Control Protocol);
  • Distributed Switch Architecture;
  • IPv4 networking;
  • IPv6 networking;
  • IUCV driver;
  • L2TP protocol;
  • MAC80211 subsystem;
  • IEEE 802.15.4 subsystem;
  • Multipath TCP;
  • NCSI (Network Controller Sideband Interface) driver;
  • Netfilter;
  • Netlink;
  • RxRPC session sockets;
  • SCTP protocol;
  • SMC sockets;
  • Sun RPC protocol;
  • TIPC protocol;
  • Unix domain sockets;
  • VMware vSockets driver;
  • Wireless networking;
  • eXpress Data Path;
  • XFRM subsystem;
  • AppArmor security module;
  • Integrity Measurement Architecture(IMA) framework;
  • Key management;
  • ALSA framework;
  • FireWire sound drivers;
  • AudioScience HPI driver;
  • HD-audio driver;
  • SoC Audio for Freescale CPUs drivers;
  • MediaTek ASoC drivers;
  • QCOM ASoC drivers;
  • SoC audio core drivers;
  • STMicroelectronics SoC drivers;
  • USB sound devices;
  • KVM core

Update instructions

After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

ATTENTION: Due to an unavoidable ABI change the kernel updates have been given a new version number, which requires you to recompile and reinstall all third party kernel modules you might have installed. Unless you manually uninstalled the standard kernel metapackages (e.g. linux-generic, linux-generic-lts-RELEASE, linux-virtual, linux-powerpc), a standard system upgrade will automatically perform this as well.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
24.04 noble linux-image-6.11.0-1015-oem –  6.11.0-1015.15
linux-image-oem-24.04b –  6.11.0-1015.15

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