CVE-2024-40913
Published: Jul 12, 2024
Modified: May 11, 2026
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.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected c8383054506c77b814489c09877b5db83fd4abf2 - < eac51d9daacd61dcc93333ff6a890cf3efc8c1c0affected c8383054506c77b814489c09877b5db83fd4abf2 - < d2d3eb377a5d081bf2bed177d354a4f59b74da88affected c8383054506c77b814489c09877b5db83fd4abf2 - < b9f58cdae6a364a3270fd6b6a46e0fd4f7f8ce32affected c8383054506c77b814489c09877b5db83fd4abf2 - < 4b4391e77a6bf24cba2ef1590e113d9b73b11039 |
Linux | Linux | affected 5.19unaffected 0 - < 5.19unaffected 6.1.95 - <= 6.1.*unaffected 6.6.35 - <= 6.6.*unaffected 6.9.6 - <= 6.9.*+1 more versions |
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