CVE-2024-40913

cachefiles: defer exposing anon_fd until after copy_to_user() succeeds

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Jul 12, 2024
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Jul 12, 2024

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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.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • c8383054506c77b814489c09877b5db83fd4abf2 to before eac51d9daacd61dcc93333ff6a890cf3efc8c1c0Affected
  • c8383054506c77b814489c09877b5db83fd4abf2 to before d2d3eb377a5d081bf2bed177d354a4f59b74da88Affected
  • c8383054506c77b814489c09877b5db83fd4abf2 to before b9f58cdae6a364a3270fd6b6a46e0fd4f7f8ce32Affected
  • c8383054506c77b814489c09877b5db83fd4abf2 to before 4b4391e77a6bf24cba2ef1590e113d9b73b11039Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.19Affected
  • before 5.19Not affected
  • 6.1.95 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.35 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.9.6 through 6.9.*Not affected
  • 6.10 and laterNot affected

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