CVE-2024-26630

2024-03-1316:15:30

416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

web.nvd.nist.gov

linux

kernel

cachestat

fix

vulnerability

cve-2024-26630

security

update

6.6 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

15.7%

JSON

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mm: cachestat: fix folio read-after-free in cache walk

In cachestat, we access the folio from the page cache’s xarray to compute
its page offset, and check for its dirty and writeback flags. However, we
do not hold a reference to the folio before performing these actions,
which means the folio can concurrently be released and reused as another
folio/page/slab.

Get around this altogether by just using xarray’s existing machinery for
the folio page offsets and dirty/writeback states.

This changes behavior for tmpfs files to now always report zeroes in their
dirty and writeback counters. This is okay as tmpfs doesn’t follow
conventional writeback cache behavior: its pages get “cleaned” during
swapout, after which they’re no longer resident etc.

Affected configurations

Vulners

Node

linuxlinux_kernelRange6.5–6.6.21

linuxlinux_kernelRange6.7.0–6.7.9

linuxlinux_kernelRange6.8.0≥

VendorProductVersionCPE
linuxlinux_kernel*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
linuxlinux_kernel*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
linuxlinux_kernel*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE
linux	linux_kernel	*	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::
linux	linux_kernel	*	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::
linux	linux_kernel	*	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::

CNA Affected

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  {
    "product": "Linux",
    "vendor": "Linux",
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
    "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
    "programFiles": [
      "mm/filemap.c"
    ],
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "cf264e1329fb",
        "lessThan": "ba60fdf75e89",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      },
      {
        "version": "cf264e1329fb",
        "lessThan": "fe7e008e0ce7",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      },
      {
        "version": "cf264e1329fb",
        "lessThan": "3a75cb05d53f",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "product": "Linux",
    "vendor": "Linux",
    "defaultStatus": "affected",
    "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
    "programFiles": [
      "mm/filemap.c"
    ],
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "6.5",
        "status": "affected"
      },
      {
        "version": "0",
        "lessThan": "6.5",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "6.6.21",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "6.6.*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "6.7.9",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "6.7.*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "6.8",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix"
      }
    ]
  }
]