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nvd416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67NVD:CVE-2024-26840
HistoryApr 17, 2024 - 10:15 a.m.

CVE-2024-26840

2024-04-1710:15:09
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
web.nvd.nist.gov
cachefiles
memory leak
kernel vulnerability
cache_cred
cachefiles_daemon_unbind()

7.3 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

13.0%

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

cachefiles: fix memory leak in cachefiles_add_cache()

The following memory leak was reported after unbinding /dev/cachefiles:

==================================================================
unreferenced object 0xffff9b674176e3c0 (size 192):
comm “cachefilesd2”, pid 680, jiffies 4294881224
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 …
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 …
backtrace (crc ea38a44b):
[<ffffffff8eb8a1a5>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x2d5/0x370
[<ffffffff8e917f86>] prepare_creds+0x26/0x2e0
[<ffffffffc002eeef>] cachefiles_determine_cache_security+0x1f/0x120
[<ffffffffc00243ec>] cachefiles_add_cache+0x13c/0x3a0
[<ffffffffc0025216>] cachefiles_daemon_write+0x146/0x1c0
[<ffffffff8ebc4a3b>] vfs_write+0xcb/0x520
[<ffffffff8ebc5069>] ksys_write+0x69/0xf0
[<ffffffff8f6d4662>] do_syscall_64+0x72/0x140
[<ffffffff8f8000aa>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x76

Put the reference count of cache_cred in cachefiles_daemon_unbind() to
fix the problem. And also put cache_cred in cachefiles_add_cache() error
branch to avoid memory leaks.

7.3 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

13.0%