CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-40935
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: flush all requests after setting CACHEFILES_DEAD
In ondemand mode, when the daemon is processing an open request, if the
kernel flags the cache as CACHEFILES_DEAD, the cachefiles_daemon_write()
will always return -EIO, so the daemon can't pass the copen to the kernel.
Then the kernel process that is waiting for the copen triggers a hung_task.
Since the DEAD state is irreversible, it can only be exited by closing
/dev/cachefiles. Therefore, after calling cachefiles_io_error() to mark
the cache as CACHEFILES_DEAD, if in ondemand mode, flush all requests to
avoid the above hungtask. We may still be able to read some of the cached
data before closing the fd of /dev/cachefiles.
Note that this relies on the patch that adds reference counting to the req,
otherwise it may UAF.
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/320ba9cbca78be79c912143bbba1d1b35ca55cf0 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3bf0b8030296e9ee60d3d4c15849ad9ac0b47081 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/85e833cd7243bda7285492b0653c3abb1e2e757b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e73fac95084839c5178d97e81c6a2051251bdc00 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/320ba9cbca78be79c912143bbba1d1b35ca55cf0 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3bf0b8030296e9ee60d3d4c15849ad9ac0b47081 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/85e833cd7243bda7285492b0653c3abb1e2e757b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e73fac95084839c5178d97e81c6a2051251bdc00 Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00001.html lists.debian.org