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Tracker / CVE-2024-41012

CVE-2024-41012

High 7.8

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: filelock: Remove locks reliably when fcntl/close race is detected When fcntl_setlk() races with close(), it removes the created lock with do_lock_file_wait(). However, LSMs can allow the first do_lock_file_wait() that created the lock while denying the second do_lock_file_wait() that tries to remove the lock. Separately, posix_lock_file() could also fail to remove a lock due to GFP_KERNEL allocation failure (when splitting a range in the middle). After the bug has been triggered, use-after-free reads will occur in lock_get_status() when userspace reads /proc/locks. This can likely be used to read arbitrary kernel memory, but can't corrupt kernel memory. Fix it by calling locks_remove_posix() instead, which is designed to reliably get rid of POSIX locks associated with the given file and files_struct and is also used by filp_flush().

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · 2.6.13 → 4.19.319
linux linux_kernel · 4.20 → 5.4.281
linux linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.15.164
linux linux_kernel · 5.16 → 6.1.101
linux linux_kernel · 5.5 → 5.10.223
linux linux_kernel · 6.2 → 6.6.42
linux linux_kernel · 6.7 → 6.9.9

Analysis

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