Acknowledged
Created: Oct 10, 2025
Updated: Oct 17, 2025
Found In Version: 10.23.30.1
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux LTS 23
Component/s: Kernel
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:[EOL][EOL]tracing/histograms: Add histograms to hist_vars if they have referenced variables[EOL][EOL]Hist triggers can have referenced variables without having direct[EOL]variables fields. This can be the case if referenced variables are added[EOL]for trigger actions. In this case the newly added references will not[EOL]have field variables. Not taking such referenced variables into[EOL]consideration can result in a bug where it would be possible to remove[EOL]hist trigger with variables being refenced. This will result in a bug[EOL]that is easily reproducable like so[EOL][EOL]$ cd /sys/kernel/tracing[EOL]$ echo 'synthetic_sys_enter char[] comm; long id' >> synthetic_events[EOL]$ echo 'hist:keys=common_pid.execname,id.syscall:vals=hitcount:comm=common_pid.execname' >> events/raw_syscalls/sys_enter/trigger[EOL]$ echo 'hist:keys=common_pid.execname,id.syscall:onmatch(raw_syscalls.sys_enter).synthetic_sys_enter($comm, id)' >> events/raw_syscalls/sys_enter/trigger[EOL]$ echo '!hist:keys=common_pid.execname,id.syscall:vals=hitcount:comm=common_pid.execname' >> events/raw_syscalls/sys_enter/trigger[EOL][EOL][ 100.263533] ==================================================================[EOL][ 100.264634] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in resolve_var_refs+0xc7/0x180[EOL][ 100.265520] Read of size 8 at addr ffff88810375d0f0 by task bash/439[EOL][ 100.266320][EOL][ 100.266533] CPU: 2 PID: 439 Comm: bash Not tainted 6.5.0-rc1 #4[EOL][ 100.267277] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.0-20220807_005459-localhost 04/01/2014[EOL][ 100.268561] Call Trace:[EOL][ 100.268902] <TASK>[EOL][ 100.269189] dump_stack_lvl+0x4c/0x70[EOL][ 100.269680] print_report+0xc5/0x600[EOL][ 100.270165] ? resolve_var_refs+0xc7/0x180[EOL][ 100.270697] ? kasan_complete_mode_report_info+0x80/0x1f0[EOL][ 100.271389] ? resolve_var_refs+0xc7/0x180[EOL][ 100.271913] kasan_report+0xbd/0x100[EOL][ 100.272380] ? resolve_var_refs+0xc7/0x180[EOL][ 100.272920] __asan_load8+0x71/0xa0[EOL][ 100.273377] resolve_var_refs+0xc7/0x180[EOL][ 100.273888] event_hist_trigger+0x749/0x860[EOL][ 100.274505] ? kasan_save_stack+0x2a/0x50[EOL][ 100.275024] ? kasan_set_track+0x29/0x40[EOL][ 100.275536] ? __pfx_event_hist_trigger+0x10/0x10[EOL][ 100.276138] ? ksys_write+0xd1/0x170[EOL][ 100.276607] ? do_syscall_64+0x3c/0x90[EOL][ 100.277099] ? entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8[EOL][ 100.277771] ? destroy_hist_data+0x446/0x470[EOL][ 100.278324] ? event_hist_trigger_parse+0xa6c/0x3860[EOL][ 100.278962] ? __pfx_event_hist_trigger_parse+0x10/0x10[EOL][ 100.279627] ? __kasan_check_write+0x18/0x20[EOL][ 100.280177] ? mutex_unlock+0x85/0xd0[EOL][ 100.280660] ? __pfx_mutex_unlock+0x10/0x10[EOL][ 100.281200] ? kfree+0x7b/0x120[EOL][ 100.281619] ? ____kasan_slab_free+0x15d/0x1d0[EOL][ 100.282197] ? event_trigger_write+0xac/0x100[EOL][ 100.282764] ? __kasan_slab_free+0x16/0x20[EOL][ 100.283293] ? __kmem_cache_free+0x153/0x2f0[EOL][ 100.283844] ? sched_mm_cid_remote_clear+0xb1/0x250[EOL][ 100.284550] ? __pfx_sched_mm_cid_remote_clear+0x10/0x10[EOL][ 100.285221] ? event_trigger_write+0xbc/0x100[EOL][ 100.285781] ? __kasan_check_read+0x15/0x20[EOL][ 100.286321] ? __bitmap_weight+0x66/0xa0[EOL][ 100.286833] ? _find_next_bit+0x46/0xe0[EOL][ 100.287334] ? task_mm_cid_work+0x37f/0x450[EOL][ 100.287872] event_triggers_call+0x84/0x150[EOL][ 100.288408] trace_event_buffer_commit+0x339/0x430[EOL][ 100.289073] ? ring_buffer_event_data+0x3f/0x60[EOL][ 100.292189] trace_event_raw_event_sys_enter+0x8b/0xe0[EOL][ 100.295434] syscall_trace_enter.constprop.0+0x18f/0x1b0[EOL][ 100.298653] syscall_enter_from_user_mode+0x32/0x40[EOL][ 100.301808] do_syscall_64+0x1a/0x90[EOL][ 100.304748] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8[EOL][ 100.307775] RIP: 0033:0x7f686c75c1cb[EOL][ 100.310617] Code: 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d 65 3c 10 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48 83 c8 ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 f3 0f 1e fa b8 21 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d 35 3c 10 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48[EOL][ 100.317847] RSP: 002b:00007ffc60137a38 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000021[EOL][ 100.321200] RA[EOL]---truncated---