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CVE-2024-46845 Detail

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tracing/timerlat: Only clear timer if a kthread exists The timerlat tracer can use user space threads to check for osnoise and timer latency. If the program using this is killed via a SIGTERM, the threads are shutdown one at a time and another tracing instance can start up resetting the threads before they are fully closed. That causes the hrtimer assigned to the kthread to be shutdown and freed twice when the dying thread finally closes the file descriptors, causing a use-after-free bug. Only cancel the hrtimer if the associated thread is still around. Also add the interface_lock around the resetting of the tlat_var->kthread. Note, this is just a quick fix that can be backported to stable. A real fix is to have a better synchronization between the shutdown of old threads and the starting of new ones.


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Hyperlink Resource
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8a9d0d405159e9c796ddf771f7cff691c1a2bc1e Patch 
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8c72f0b2c45f21cb8b00fc37f79f632d7e46c2ed Patch 
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e6a53481da292d970d1edf0d8831121d1c5e2f0d Patch 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-416 Use After Free cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2024-46845
NVD Published Date:
09/27/2024
NVD Last Modified:
10/02/2024
Source:
kernel.org