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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2024-40913

Change History

New CVE Received by NIST 7/12/2024 9:15:14 AM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added 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.
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4b4391e77a6bf24cba2ef1590e113d9b73b11039 [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b9f58cdae6a364a3270fd6b6a46e0fd4f7f8ce32 [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d2d3eb377a5d081bf2bed177d354a4f59b74da88 [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eac51d9daacd61dcc93333ff6a890cf3efc8c1c0 [No types assigned]