CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-26840
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2024-04-17
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-401
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cachefiles: fix memory leak in cachefiles_add_cache()
The following memory leak was reported after unbinding /dev/cachefiles:
==================================================================
unreferenced object 0xffff9b674176e3c0 (size 192):
comm "cachefilesd2", pid 680, jiffies 4294881224
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace (crc ea38a44b):
[<ffffffff8eb8a1a5>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x2d5/0x370
[<ffffffff8e917f86>] prepare_creds+0x26/0x2e0
[<ffffffffc002eeef>] cachefiles_determine_cache_security+0x1f/0x120
[<ffffffffc00243ec>] cachefiles_add_cache+0x13c/0x3a0
[<ffffffffc0025216>] cachefiles_daemon_write+0x146/0x1c0
[<ffffffff8ebc4a3b>] vfs_write+0xcb/0x520
[<ffffffff8ebc5069>] ksys_write+0x69/0xf0
[<ffffffff8f6d4662>] do_syscall_64+0x72/0x140
[<ffffffff8f8000aa>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x76
==================================================================
Put the reference count of cache_cred in cachefiles_daemon_unbind() to
fix the problem. And also put cache_cred in cachefiles_add_cache() error
branch to avoid memory leaks.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 2.6.30 < 4.19.309)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.4.271)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.212)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.151)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.80)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.19)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.7.7)
• linux linux kernel 6.8
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/037d5a949b0455540ef9aab34c10ddf54b65d285 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/38e921616320d159336b0ffadb09e9fb4945c7c3 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/43eccc5823732ba6daab2511ed32dfc545a666d8 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8b218e2f0a27a9f09428b1847b4580640b9d1e58 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/94965be37add0983672e48ecb33cdbda92b62579 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9cac69912052a4def571fedf1cb9bb4ec590e25a Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cb5466783793e66272624cf71925ae1d1ba32083 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e21a2f17566cbd64926fb8f16323972f7a064444 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/037d5a949b0455540ef9aab34c10ddf54b65d285 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/38e921616320d159336b0ffadb09e9fb4945c7c3 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/43eccc5823732ba6daab2511ed32dfc545a666d8 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8b218e2f0a27a9f09428b1847b4580640b9d1e58 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/94965be37add0983672e48ecb33cdbda92b62579 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9cac69912052a4def571fedf1cb9bb4ec590e25a Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cb5466783793e66272624cf71925ae1d1ba32083 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e21a2f17566cbd64926fb8f16323972f7a064444 Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00017.html Mailing List
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00020.html Mailing List