CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-26878

4.7 MEDIUM Published 2024-04-17 Modified 2026-10-15 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2024-04-17
Last modified
2026-10-15
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
4.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-362, CWE-476

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: quota: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference Below race may cause NULL pointer dereference P1 P2 dquot_free_inode quota_off drop_dquot_ref remove_dquot_ref dquots = i_dquot(inode) dquots = i_dquot(inode) srcu_read_lock dquots[cnt]) != NULL (1) dquots[type] = NULL (2) spin_lock(&dquots[cnt]->dq_dqb_lock) (3) .... If dquot_free_inode(or other routines) checks inode's quota pointers (1) before quota_off sets it to NULL(2) and use it (3) after that, NULL pointer dereference will be triggered. So let's fix it by using a temporary pointer to avoid this issue.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (< 4.19.311) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.4.273) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.214) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.153) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.83) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.23) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.7.11) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.8 < 6.8.2) • debian debian linux 10.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness
  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References