The vulnerability of the cachefiles_ondemand_daemon_read() function in the cachefiles file system of the Linux operating system allows a attacker to compromise the accessibility of protected information.

The vulnerability of the cachefilesondemanddaemonread function in the fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c file of the Linux kernel’s cachefiles file system is related to the reutilization of previously freed memory. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker to compromise the accessibility of...

CVE-2024-40900

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cachefiles: remove requests from xarray during flushing requests Even with CACHEFILESDEAD set, we can still read the requests, so in the following concurrency the request may be used after it has been freed: mount | daemonthread1...