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    <id>https://vulnerability.circl.lu/vuln/cve-2024-40899</id>
    <title>CVE-2024-40899 — cachefiles: fix slab-use-after-free in cachefiles_ondemand_get_fd()</title>
    <updated>2026-09-30T03:58:03.000021+00:00</updated>
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      <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p><strong>Affected:</strong> Linux</p>
<p>In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:</p>
<p>cachefiles: fix slab-use-after-free in cachefiles_ondemand_get_fd()</p>
<p>We got the following issue in a fuzz test of randomly issuing the restore
command:</p>
<p>==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in cachefiles_ondemand_daemon_read+0x609/0xab0
Write of size 4 at addr ffff888109164a80 by task ondemand-04-dae/4962</p>
<p>CPU: 11 PID: 4962 Comm: ondemand-04-dae Not tainted 6.8.0-rc7-dirty #542
Call Trace:
 kasan_report+0x94/0xc0
 cachefiles_ondemand_daemon_read+0x609/0xab0
 vfs_read+0x169/0xb50
 ksys_read+0xf5/0x1e0</p>
<p>Allocated by task 626:
 __kmalloc+0x1df/0x4b0
 cachefiles_ondemand_send_req+0x24d/0x690
 cachefiles_create_tmpfile+0x249/0xb30
 cachefiles_create_file+0x6f/0x140
 cachefiles_look_up_object+0x29c/0xa60
 cachefiles_lookup_cookie+0x37d/0xca0
 fscache_cookie_state_machine+0x43c/0x1230
 [...]</p>
<p>Freed by task 626:
 kfree+0xf1/0x2c0
 cachefiles_ondemand_send_req+0x568/0x690
 cachefiles_create_tmpfile+0x249/0xb30
 cachefiles_create_file+0x6f/0x140
 cachefiles_look_up_object+0x29c/0xa60
 cachefiles_lookup_cookie+0x37d/0xca0
 fscache_cookie_state_machine+0x43c/0x1230
 [...]
==================================================================</p>
<p>Following is the process that triggers the issue:</p>
<p>mount  |   daemon_thread1    |    daemon_thread2
------------------------------------------------------------
 cachefiles_ondemand_init_object
  cachefiles_ondemand_se…</p></div>
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