CVE-2022-48988
Published: Oct 21, 2024
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: memcg: fix possible use-after-free in memcg_write_event_control() memcg_write_event_control() accesses the dentry->d_name of the specified control fd to route the write call. As a cgroup interface file can't be renamed, it's safe to access d_name as long as the specified file is a regular cgroup file. Also, as these cgroup interface files can't be removed before the directory, it's safe to access the parent too. Prior to 347c4a874710 ("memcg: remove cgroup_event->cft"), there was a call to __file_cft() which verified that the specified file is a regular cgroupfs file before further accesses. The cftype pointer returned from __file_cft() was no longer necessary and the commit inadvertently dropped the file type check with it allowing any file to slip through. With the invarients broken, the d_name and parent accesses can now race against renames and removals of arbitrary files and cause use-after-free's. Fix the bug by resurrecting the file type check in __file_cft(). Now that cgroupfs is implemented through kernfs, checking the file operations needs to go through a layer of indirection. Instead, let's check the superblock and dentry type.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 347c4a8747104a945ecced358944e42879176ca5 - < b77600e26fd48727a95ffd50ba1e937efb548125affected 347c4a8747104a945ecced358944e42879176ca5 - < e1ae97624ecf400ea56c238bff23e5cd139df0b8affected 347c4a8747104a945ecced358944e42879176ca5 - < 35963b31821920908e397146502066f6b032c917affected 347c4a8747104a945ecced358944e42879176ca5 - < f1f7f36cf682fa59db15e2089039a2eeb58ff2adaffected 347c4a8747104a945ecced358944e42879176ca5 - < aad8bbd17a1d586005feb9226c2e9cfce1432e13+2 more versions |
Linux | Linux | affected 3.14unaffected 0 - < 3.14unaffected 4.14.302 - <= 4.14.*unaffected 4.19.269 - <= 4.19.*unaffected 5.4.227 - <= 5.4.*+4 more versions |
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