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Tracker / CVE-2024-26689

CVE-2024-26689

High 8.8

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ceph: prevent use-after-free in encode_cap_msg() In fs/ceph/caps.c, in encode_cap_msg(), "use after free" error was caught by KASAN at this line - 'ceph_buffer_get(arg->xattr_buf);'. This implies before the refcount could be increment here, it was freed. In same file, in "handle_cap_grant()" refcount is decremented by this line - 'ceph_buffer_put(ci->i_xattrs.blob);'. It appears that a race occurred and resource was freed by the latter line before the former line could increment it. encode_cap_msg() is called by __send_cap() and __send_cap() is called by ceph_check_caps() after calling __prep_cap(). __prep_cap() is where arg->xattr_buf is assigned to ci->i_xattrs.blob. This is the spot where the refcount must be increased to prevent "use after free" error.

Affected products and versions

debian debian_linux
linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · … → 5.10.210
linux linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.15.149
linux linux_kernel · 5.16 → 6.1.79
linux linux_kernel · 6.2 → 6.6.18
linux linux_kernel · 6.7 → 6.7.6

Analysis

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