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CVE-2024-41058 — cachefiles: fix slab-use-after-free in fscache_withdraw_volume()

Affected: Linux

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

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

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

================================================================== BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in fscache_withdraw_volume+0x2e1/0x370 Read of size 4 at addr ffff88810680be08 by task ondemand-04-dae/5798

CPU: 0 PID: 5798 Comm: ondemand-04-dae Not tainted 6.8.0-dirty #565 Call Trace: kasan_check_range+0xf6/0x1b0 fscache_withdraw_volume+0x2e1/0x370 cachefiles_withdraw_volume+0x31/0x50 cachefiles_withdraw_cache+0x3ad/0x900 cachefiles_put_unbind_pincount+0x1f6/0x250 cachefiles_daemon_release+0x13b/0x290 __fput+0x204/0xa00 task_work_run+0x139/0x230

Allocated by task 5820: __kmalloc+0x1df/0x4b0 fscache_alloc_volume+0x70/0x600 __fscache_acquire_volume+0x1c/0x610 erofs_fscache_register_volume+0x96/0x1a0 erofs_fscache_register_fs+0x49a/0x690 erofs_fc_fill_super+0x6c0/0xcc0 vfs_get_super+0xa9/0x140 vfs_get_tree+0x8e/0x300 do_new_mount+0x28c/0x580 [...]

Freed by task 5820: kfree+0xf1/0x2c0 fscache_put_volume.part.0+0x5cb/0x9e0 erofs_fscache_unregister_fs+0x157/0x1b0 erofs_kill_sb+0xd9/0x1c0 deactivate_locked_super+0xa3/0x100 vfs_get_super+0x105/0x140 vfs_get_tree+0x8e/0x300 do_new_mount+0x28c/0x580 [...] ==================================================================

Following is the process that triggers the issue:

mount failed |…

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…