In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/msm: Fix pgtable prealloc error path The following splat was reported: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000010 Mem abort info: ESR = 0x0000000096000004 EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits SET = 0, FnV = 0 EA = 0, S1PTW = 0 FSC = 0x04: level 0 translation fault Data abort info: ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000004, ISS2 = 0x00000000 CM = 0, WnR = 0, TnD = 0, TagAccess = 0 GCS = 0, Overlay = 0, DirtyBit = 0, Xs = 0 user pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=00000008d0fd8000 [0000000000000010] pgd=0000000000000000, p4d=0000000000000000 Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000004 [#1] SMP CPU: 5 UID: 1000 PID: 149076 Comm: Xwayland Tainted: G S 6.16.0-rc2-00809-g0b6974bb4134-dirty #367 PREEMPT Tainted: [S]=CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC Hardware name: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. SM8650 HDK (DT) pstate: 83400005 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO +TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) pc : build_detached_freelist+0x28/0x224 lr : kmem_cache_free_bulk.part.0+0x38/0x244 sp : ffff000a508c7a20 x29: ffff000a508c7a20 x28: ffff000a508c7d50 x27: ffffc4e49d16f350 x26: 0000000000000058 x25: 00000000fffffffc x24: 0000000000000000 x23: ffff00098c4e1450 x22: 00000000fffffffc x21: 0000000000000000 x20: ffff000a508c7af8 x19: 0000000000000002 x18: 00000000000003e8 x17: ffff000809523850 x16: ffff000809523820 x15: 0000000000401640 x14: ffff000809371140 x13: 0000000000000130 x12: ffff0008b5711e30 x11: 00000000001058fa x10: 0000000000000a80 x9 : ffff000a508c7940 x8 : ffff000809371ba0 x7 : 781fffe033087fff x6 : 0000000000000000 x5 : ffff0008003cd000 x4 : 781fffe033083fff x3 : ffff000a508c7af8 x2 : fffffdffc0000000 x1 : 0001000000000000 x0 : ffff0008001a6a00 Call trace: build_detached_freelist+0x28/0x224 (P) kmem_cache_free_bulk.part.0+0x38/0x244 kmem_cache_free_bulk+0x10/0x1c msm_iommu_pagetable_prealloc_cleanup+0x3c/0xd0 msm_vma_job_free+0x30/0x240 msm_ioctl_vm_bind+0x1d0/0x9a0 drm_ioctl_kernel+0x84/0x104 drm_ioctl+0x358/0x4d4 __arm64_sys_ioctl+0x8c/0xe0 invoke_syscall+0x44/0x100 el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x3c/0xe0 do_el0_svc+0x18/0x20 el0_svc+0x30/0x100 el0t_64_sync_handler+0x104/0x130 el0t_64_sync+0x170/0x174 Code: aa0203f5 b26287e2 f2dfbfe2 aa0303f4 (f8737ab6) ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- Since msm_vma_job_free() is called directly from the ioctl, this looks like an error path cleanup issue. Which I think results from prealloc_cleanup() called without a preceding successful prealloc_allocate() call. So handle that case better. Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/678677/

An update of the linux package has been released.

The remote Ubuntu 24.04 LTS / 25.10 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-8094-1 advisory.

    Qualys discovered that several vulnerabilities existed in the AppArmor Linux kernel Security Module (LSM).
    An unprivileged local attacker could use these issues to load, replace, and remove arbitrary AppArmor     profiles causing denial of service, exposure of sensitive information (kernel memory), local privilege     escalation, or possibly escape a container. (LP: #2143853)

    It was discovered that some AMD Zen 5 processors supporting RDSEED instruction did not properly handle     entropy, potentially resulting in the consumption of insufficiently random values. A local attacker could     possibly use this issue to influence the values returned by the RDSEED instruction causing loss of     confidentiality and integrity. (CVE-2025-62626)

    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:

    - ARM64 architecture;

    - S390 architecture;

    - x86 architecture;

    - Block layer subsystem;

    - Cryptographic API;

    - Compute Acceleration Framework;

    - ATM drivers;

    - Network block device driver;

    - Bluetooth drivers;

    - Data acquisition framework and drivers;

    - Hardware crypto device drivers;

    - Device frequency scaling framework;

    - Intel Stratix 10 firmware drivers;

    - GPIO subsystem;

    - GPU drivers;

    - Microsoft Hyper-V drivers;

    - CoreSight HW tracing drivers;

    - IIO subsystem;

    - InfiniBand drivers;

    - Input Device core drivers;

    - Input Device (Tablet) drivers;

    - IOMMU subsystem;

    - IRQ chip drivers;

    - Macintosh device drivers;

    - Multiple devices driver;

    - MOST (Media Oriented Systems Transport) drivers;

    - MTD block device drivers;

    - Network drivers;

    - Mellanox network drivers;

    - Texas Instruments network drivers;

    - Ethernet team driver;

    - MediaTek network drivers;

    - NVME drivers;

    - Pin controllers subsystem;

    - x86 platform drivers;

    - Voltage and Current Regulator drivers;

    - Real Time Clock drivers;

    - S/390 drivers;

    - SCSI subsystem;

    - Texas Instruments SoC drivers;

    - SPI subsystem;

    - Media Oriented Systems Transport (MOST) driver;

    - Realtek RTL8723BS SDIO drivers;

    - TCM subsystem;

    - UFS subsystem;

    - DesignWare USB3 driver;

    - USB Gadget drivers;

    - Renesas USBHS Controller drivers;

    - USB Mass Storage drivers;

    - USB Type-C Connector System Software Interface driver;

    - Backlight driver;

    - Framebuffer layer;

    - AFS file system;

    - BFS file system;

    - BTRFS file system;

    - EROFS file system;

    - Ext4 file system;

    - FAT file system;

    - GFS2 file system;

    - Journaling layer for block devices (JBD2);

    - File systems infrastructure;

    - Network file system (NFS) client;

    - NTFS3 file system;

    - OCFS2 file system;

    - SMB network file system;

    - XFS file system;

    - BPF subsystem;

    - MediaTek SoC drivers;

    - Bluetooth subsystem;

    - io_uring subsystem;

    - Locking primitives;

    - Scheduler infrastructure;

    - Timer subsystem;

    - Tracing infrastructure;

    - Kexec HandOver (KHO);

    - Memory management;

    - Ceph Core library;

    - Networking core;

    - Devlink API;

    - IPv4 networking;

    - IPv6 networking;

    - Multipath TCP;

    - Open vSwitch;

    - Network traffic control;

    - VMware vSockets driver;

    - eXpress Data Path;

    - Integrity Measurement Architecture(IMA) framework;

    - Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel framework;

    - FireWire sound drivers;

    - HD-audio driver;

    - Turtle Beach Wavefront ALSA driver;

    - SoundWire (SDCA) ASoC drivers; (CVE-2025-40246, CVE-2025-40247, CVE-2025-40248, CVE-2025-40249,     CVE-2025-40250, CVE-2025-40251, CVE-2025-40252, CVE-2025-40253, CVE-2025-40254, CVE-2025-40255,     CVE-2025-40257, CVE-2025-40258, CVE-2025-40259, CVE-2025-40260, CVE-2025-40261, CVE-2025-40262,     CVE-2025-40263, CVE-2025-40264, CVE-2025-40265, CVE-2025-40266, CVE-2025-40290, CVE-2025-40345,     CVE-2025-68212, CVE-2025-68213, CVE-2025-68214, CVE-2025-68215, CVE-2025-68217, CVE-2025-68218,     CVE-2025-68219, CVE-2025-68220, CVE-2025-68221, CVE-2025-68222, CVE-2025-68223, CVE-2025-68225,     CVE-2025-68227, CVE-2025-68228, CVE-2025-68229, CVE-2025-68230, CVE-2025-68231, CVE-2025-68232,     CVE-2025-68233, CVE-2025-68234, CVE-2025-68235, CVE-2025-68236, CVE-2025-68237, CVE-2025-68238,     CVE-2025-68254, CVE-2025-68255, CVE-2025-68256, CVE-2025-68257, CVE-2025-68258, CVE-2025-68259,     CVE-2025-68261, CVE-2025-68262, CVE-2025-68263, CVE-2025-68264, CVE-2025-68265, CVE-2025-68266,     CVE-2025-68281, CVE-2025-68282, CVE-2025-68283, CVE-2025-68284, CVE-2025-68285, CVE-2025-68286,     CVE-2025-68287, CVE-2025-68288, CVE-2025-68289, CVE-2025-68290, CVE-2025-68292, CVE-2025-68293,     CVE-2025-68294, CVE-2025-68295, CVE-2025-68296, CVE-2025-68297, CVE-2025-68298, CVE-2025-68299,     CVE-2025-68300, CVE-2025-68301, CVE-2025-68302, CVE-2025-68303, CVE-2025-68304, CVE-2025-68305,     CVE-2025-68306, CVE-2025-68307, CVE-2025-68308, CVE-2025-68323, CVE-2025-68324, CVE-2025-68325,     CVE-2025-68326, CVE-2025-68327, CVE-2025-68328, CVE-2025-68329, CVE-2025-68330, CVE-2025-68331,     CVE-2025-68332, CVE-2025-68333, CVE-2025-68334, CVE-2025-68335, CVE-2025-68336, CVE-2025-68337,     CVE-2025-68338, CVE-2025-68339, CVE-2025-68340, CVE-2025-68341, CVE-2025-68342, CVE-2025-68343,     CVE-2025-68344, CVE-2025-68345, CVE-2025-68346, CVE-2025-68347, CVE-2025-68348, CVE-2025-68349,     CVE-2025-68352, CVE-2025-68354, CVE-2025-68356, CVE-2025-68358, CVE-2025-68359, CVE-2025-68360,     CVE-2025-68361, CVE-2025-68362, CVE-2025-68363, CVE-2025-68364, CVE-2025-68366, CVE-2025-68367,     CVE-2025-68369, CVE-2025-68370, CVE-2025-68371, CVE-2025-68372, CVE-2025-68373, CVE-2025-68374,     CVE-2025-68375, CVE-2025-68376, CVE-2025-68378, CVE-2025-68379, CVE-2025-68380, CVE-2025-68724,     CVE-2025-68726, CVE-2025-68727, CVE-2025-68728, CVE-2025-68729, CVE-2025-68730, CVE-2025-68732,     CVE-2025-68733, CVE-2025-68735, CVE-2025-68738, CVE-2025-68739, CVE-2025-68740, CVE-2025-68741,     CVE-2025-68742, CVE-2025-68743, CVE-2025-68744, CVE-2025-68746, CVE-2025-68747, CVE-2025-68748,     CVE-2025-68749, CVE-2025-68751, CVE-2025-68752, CVE-2025-68753, CVE-2025-68754, CVE-2025-68755,     CVE-2025-68756, CVE-2025-68757, CVE-2025-68758, CVE-2025-68759, CVE-2025-68760, CVE-2025-68762,     CVE-2025-68763, CVE-2025-68764, CVE-2025-68765, CVE-2025-68766, CVE-2025-71128)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - drm/msm: Fix pgtable prealloc error path The following splat was reported: Unable to handle kernel NULL     pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000010 Mem abort info: ESR = 0x0000000096000004 EC =     0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits SET = 0, FnV = 0 EA = 0, S1PTW = 0 FSC = 0x04: level 0 translation     fault Data abort info: ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000004, ISS2 = 0x00000000 CM = 0, WnR = 0, TnD = 0, TagAccess =     0 GCS = 0, Overlay = 0, DirtyBit = 0, Xs = 0 user pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=00000008d0fd8000     [0000000000000010] pgd=0000000000000000, p4d=0000000000000000 Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000004 [#1]     SMP CPU: 5 UID: 1000 PID: 149076 Comm: Xwayland Tainted: G S 6.16.0-rc2-00809-g0b6974bb4134-dirty #367     PREEMPT Tainted: [S]=CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC Hardware name: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. SM8650 HDK (DT) pstate:
    83400005 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO +TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) pc : build_detached_freelist+0x28/0x224 lr :
    kmem_cache_free_bulk.part.0+0x38/0x244 sp : ffff000a508c7a20 x29: ffff000a508c7a20 x28: ffff000a508c7d50     x27: ffffc4e49d16f350 x26: 0000000000000058 x25: 00000000fffffffc x24: 0000000000000000 x23:
    ffff00098c4e1450 x22: 00000000fffffffc x21: 0000000000000000 x20: ffff000a508c7af8 x19: 0000000000000002     x18: 00000000000003e8 x17: ffff000809523850 x16: ffff000809523820 x15: 0000000000401640 x14:
    ffff000809371140 x13: 0000000000000130 x12: ffff0008b5711e30 x11: 00000000001058fa x10: 0000000000000a80     x9 : ffff000a508c7940 x8 : ffff000809371ba0 x7 : 781fffe033087fff x6 : 0000000000000000 x5 :
    ffff0008003cd000 x4 : 781fffe033083fff x3 : ffff000a508c7af8 x2 : fffffdffc0000000 x1 : 0001000000000000     x0 : ffff0008001a6a00 Call trace: build_detached_freelist+0x28/0x224 (P)     kmem_cache_free_bulk.part.0+0x38/0x244 kmem_cache_free_bulk+0x10/0x1c     msm_iommu_pagetable_prealloc_cleanup+0x3c/0xd0 msm_vma_job_free+0x30/0x240 msm_ioctl_vm_bind+0x1d0/0x9a0     drm_ioctl_kernel+0x84/0x104 drm_ioctl+0x358/0x4d4 __arm64_sys_ioctl+0x8c/0xe0 invoke_syscall+0x44/0x100     el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x3c/0xe0 do_el0_svc+0x18/0x20 el0_svc+0x30/0x100     el0t_64_sync_handler+0x104/0x130 el0t_64_sync+0x170/0x174 Code: aa0203f5 b26287e2 f2dfbfe2 aa0303f4     (f8737ab6) ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- Since msm_vma_job_free() is called directly from the     ioctl, this looks like an error path cleanup issue. Which I think results from prealloc_cleanup() called     without a preceding successful prealloc_allocate() call. So handle that case better. Patchwork:
    https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/678677/ (CVE-2025-40247)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
332297	Photon OS 5.0: Linux PHSA-2024-5.0-91-0257	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	Local	high
332184	Photon OS 5.0: Linux PHSA-2024-5.0-91-0274	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	Local	high
302766	Ubuntu 24.04 LTS / 25.10 : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-8094-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	Local	high
277530	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-40247	Nessus	Misc.	Local	medium
204193	Photon OS 5.0: Linux PHSA-2024-5.0-0257	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	Local	high
204159	Photon OS 5.0: Linux PHSA-2024-5.0-0274	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	Local	high

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