CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-40913
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-07-12
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- 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: defer exposing anon_fd until after copy_to_user() succeeds
After installing the anonymous fd, we can now see it in userland and close
it. However, at this point we may not have gotten the reference count of
the cache, but we will put it during colse fd, so this may cause a cache
UAF.
So grab the cache reference count before fd_install(). In addition, by
kernel convention, fd is taken over by the user land after fd_install(),
and the kernel should not call close_fd() after that, i.e., it should call
fd_install() after everything is ready, thus fd_install() is called after
copy_to_user() succeeds.
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/4b4391e77a6bf24cba2ef1590e113d9b73b11039 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b9f58cdae6a364a3270fd6b6a46e0fd4f7f8ce32 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d2d3eb377a5d081bf2bed177d354a4f59b74da88 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eac51d9daacd61dcc93333ff6a890cf3efc8c1c0 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4b4391e77a6bf24cba2ef1590e113d9b73b11039 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b9f58cdae6a364a3270fd6b6a46e0fd4f7f8ce32 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d2d3eb377a5d081bf2bed177d354a4f59b74da88 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eac51d9daacd61dcc93333ff6a890cf3efc8c1c0 Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00001.html lists.debian.org