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HistoryJul 12, 2024 - 12:25 p.m.

CVE-2024-40935 cachefiles: flush all requests after setting CACHEFILES_DEAD

2024-07-1212:25:12
Linux
github.com
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linux kernel
cachefiles
vulnerability

AI Score

6.4

Confidence

Low

SSVC

Exploitation

none

Automatable

no

Technical Impact

partial

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

cachefiles: flush all requests after setting CACHEFILES_DEAD

In ondemand mode, when the daemon is processing an open request, if the
kernel flags the cache as CACHEFILES_DEAD, the cachefiles_daemon_write()
will always return -EIO, so the daemon can’t pass the copen to the kernel.
Then the kernel process that is waiting for the copen triggers a hung_task.

Since the DEAD state is irreversible, it can only be exited by closing
/dev/cachefiles. Therefore, after calling cachefiles_io_error() to mark
the cache as CACHEFILES_DEAD, if in ondemand mode, flush all requests to
avoid the above hungtask. We may still be able to read some of the cached
data before closing the fd of /dev/cachefiles.

Note that this relies on the patch that adds reference counting to the req,
otherwise it may UAF.

AI Score

6.4

Confidence

Low

SSVC

Exploitation

none

Automatable

no

Technical Impact

partial