CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-40900
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-07-12
- Last modified
- 2026-08-04
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cachefiles: remove requests from xarray during flushing requests
Even with CACHEFILES_DEAD set, we can still read the requests, so in the
following concurrency the request may be used after it has been freed:
mount | daemon_thread1 | daemon_thread2
------------------------------------------------------------
cachefiles_ondemand_init_object
cachefiles_ondemand_send_req
REQ_A = kzalloc(sizeof(*req) + data_len)
wait_for_completion(&REQ_A->done)
cachefiles_daemon_read
cachefiles_ondemand_daemon_read
// close dev fd
cachefiles_flush_reqs
complete(&REQ_A->done)
kfree(REQ_A)
xa_lock(&cache->reqs);
cachefiles_ondemand_select_req
req->msg.opcode != CACHEFILES_OP_READ
// req use-after-free !!!
xa_unlock(&cache->reqs);
xa_destroy(&cache->reqs)
Hence remove requests from cache->reqs when flushing them to avoid
accessing freed requests.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.19 < 6.1.95)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.35)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.9.6)
• linux linux kernel 6.10
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0fc75c5940fa634d84e64c93bfc388e1274ed013 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/37e19cf86a520d65de1de9cb330415c332a40d19 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/50d0e55356ba5b84ffb51c42704126124257e598 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9f13aacdd4ee9a7644b2a3c96d67113cd083c9c7 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0fc75c5940fa634d84e64c93bfc388e1274ed013 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/37e19cf86a520d65de1de9cb330415c332a40d19 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/50d0e55356ba5b84ffb51c42704126124257e598 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9f13aacdd4ee9a7644b2a3c96d67113cd083c9c7 Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00001.html lists.debian.org