CVE-2024-41057 — cachefiles: fix slab-use-after-free in cachefiles_withdraw_cookie()

Affected: Linux

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

cachefiles: fix slab-use-after-free in cachefiles_withdraw_cookie()

We got the following issue in our fault injection stress test:

================================================================== BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in cachefiles_withdraw_cookie+0x4d9/0x600 Read of size 8 at addr ffff888118efc000 by task kworker/u78:0/109

CPU: 13 PID: 109 Comm: kworker/u78:0 Not tainted 6.8.0-dirty #566 Call Trace: <TASK> kasan_report+0x93/0xc0 cachefiles_withdraw_cookie+0x4d9/0x600 fscache_cookie_state_machine+0x5c8/0x1230 fscache_cookie_worker+0x91/0x1c0 process_one_work+0x7fa/0x1800 [...]

Allocated by task 117: kmalloc_trace+0x1b3/0x3c0 cachefiles_acquire_volume+0xf3/0x9c0 fscache_create_volume_work+0x97/0x150 process_one_work+0x7fa/0x1800 [...]

Freed by task 120301: kfree+0xf1/0x2c0 cachefiles_withdraw_cache+0x3fa/0x920 cachefiles_put_unbind_pincount+0x1f6/0x250 cachefiles_daemon_release+0x13b/0x290 __fput+0x204/0xa00 task_work_run+0x139/0x230 do_exit+0x87a/0x29b0 [...] ==================================================================

Following is the process that triggers the issue:

p1 | p2 ------------------------------------------------------------ fscache_begin_lookup fscache_begin_volume_access fscache_cache_is_live(fscache_cache) cachefiles_dae…

USN-7089-1 — linux, linux-gcp-6.8, linux-hwe-6.8 vulnerabilities

Affected: Ubuntu:22.04:LTS: linux-gcp-6.8, Ubuntu:22.04:LTS: linux-hwe-6.8, Ubuntu:24.04:LTS: linux

Chenyuan Yang discovered that the USB Gadget subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly check for the device to be enabled before writing. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2024-25741)

Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system. This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems: - ARM32 architecture; - MIPS architecture; - PA-RISC architecture; - PowerPC architecture; - RISC-V architecture; - S390 architecture; - x86 architecture; - Cryptographic API; - Serial ATA and Parallel ATA drivers; - Null block device driver; - Bluetooth drivers; - Cdrom driver; - Clock framework and drivers; - Hardware crypto device drivers; - CXL (Compute Express Link) drivers; - Cirrus firmware drivers; - GPIO subsystem; - GPU drivers; - I2C subsystem; - IIO subsystem; - InfiniBand drivers; - ISDN/mISDN subsystem; - LED subsystem; - Multiple devices driver; - Media drivers; - Fastrpc Driver; - Network drivers; - Microsoft Azure Network Adapter (MANA) driver; - Near Field Communication (NFC) drivers; - NVME drivers; - NVMEM (Non Volatile Memory) drivers; - PCI subsystem; - Pin controllers subsystem; - x86 platform drivers; - S/390 drivers; - SCSI drivers; - Thermal drivers; - TTY drivers; - UFS subsystem; - USB DSL drivers; - USB core drivers; - DesignWare USB3 driver; - USB Gadget dr…

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CVE-2024-41057 — cachefiles: fix slab-use-after-free in cachefiles_withdraw_cookie()

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