CVE-2025-68742

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:bpf: Fix invalid prog->stats access when update_effective_progs failsSyzkaller triggers an invalid memory access issue following faultinjection in update_effective_progs. The issue can be described asfollows:__cgroup_bpf_detach update_effective_progs compute_effective_progs bpf_prog_array_alloc <-- fault inject purge_effective_progs /* change to dummy_bpf_prog */ array->items[index] = &dummy_bpf_prog.prog---softirq start---__do_softirq ... __cgroup_bpf_run_filter_skb __bpf_prog_run_save_cb bpf_prog_run stats = this_cpu_ptr(prog->stats) /* invalid memory access */ flags = u64_stats_update_begin_irqsave(&stats->syncp)---softirq end--- static_branch_dec(&cgroup_bpf_enabled_key[atype])The reason is that fault injection caused update_effective_progs to failand then changed the original prog into dummy_bpf_prog.prog inpurge_effective_progs. Then a softirq came, and accessing the members ofdummy_bpf_prog.prog in the softirq triggers invalid mem access.To fix it, skip updating stats when stats is null.

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https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234