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

CVE-2024-26630
HIGH 7.1

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.30 % · percentile 23 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Modified

Description

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.

Weaknesses (CWE)

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.1CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.1CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.1CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected cf264e1329fb0307e044f7675849f9f38b44c11a < ba60fdf75e89ea762bb617be578dc47f27655117 ; affected cf264e1329fb0307e044f7675849f9f38b44c11a < fe7e008e0ce728252e4ec652cceebcc62211657c ; affected cf264e1329fb0307e044f7675849f9f38b44c11a < 3a75cb05d53f4a6823a32deb078de1366954a804
Linux · Linuxaffected 6.5 ; unaffected 0 < 6.5 ; unaffected 6.6.21 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.7.9 ≤ 6.7.* ; unaffected 6.8 ≤ *

Sources

SourceLicence
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EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
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CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD