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CVE-2024-26840 (GCVE-0-2024-26840)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-04-17 10:10 – Updated: 2026-05-11 20:05
VLAI
Title
cachefiles: fix memory leak in cachefiles_add_cache()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cachefiles: fix memory leak in cachefiles_add_cache() The following memory leak was reported after unbinding /dev/cachefiles: ================================================================== unreferenced object 0xffff9b674176e3c0 (size 192): comm "cachefilesd2", pid 680, jiffies 4294881224 hex dump (first 32 bytes): 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace (crc ea38a44b): [<ffffffff8eb8a1a5>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x2d5/0x370 [<ffffffff8e917f86>] prepare_creds+0x26/0x2e0 [<ffffffffc002eeef>] cachefiles_determine_cache_security+0x1f/0x120 [<ffffffffc00243ec>] cachefiles_add_cache+0x13c/0x3a0 [<ffffffffc0025216>] cachefiles_daemon_write+0x146/0x1c0 [<ffffffff8ebc4a3b>] vfs_write+0xcb/0x520 [<ffffffff8ebc5069>] ksys_write+0x69/0xf0 [<ffffffff8f6d4662>] do_syscall_64+0x72/0x140 [<ffffffff8f8000aa>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x76 ================================================================== Put the reference count of cache_cred in cachefiles_daemon_unbind() to fix the problem. And also put cache_cred in cachefiles_add_cache() error branch to avoid memory leaks.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-05-28 19:58 UTC
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 9ae326a69004dea8af2dae4fde58de27db700a8d , < cb5466783793e66272624cf71925ae1d1ba32083 (git)
Affected: 9ae326a69004dea8af2dae4fde58de27db700a8d , < 037d5a949b0455540ef9aab34c10ddf54b65d285 (git)
Affected: 9ae326a69004dea8af2dae4fde58de27db700a8d , < 43eccc5823732ba6daab2511ed32dfc545a666d8 (git)
Affected: 9ae326a69004dea8af2dae4fde58de27db700a8d , < 94965be37add0983672e48ecb33cdbda92b62579 (git)
Affected: 9ae326a69004dea8af2dae4fde58de27db700a8d , < 8b218e2f0a27a9f09428b1847b4580640b9d1e58 (git)
Affected: 9ae326a69004dea8af2dae4fde58de27db700a8d , < 38e921616320d159336b0ffadb09e9fb4945c7c3 (git)
Affected: 9ae326a69004dea8af2dae4fde58de27db700a8d , < 9cac69912052a4def571fedf1cb9bb4ec590e25a (git)
Affected: 9ae326a69004dea8af2dae4fde58de27db700a8d , < e21a2f17566cbd64926fb8f16323972f7a064444 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 2.6.30
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.30 (semver)
Unaffected: 4.19.309 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.271 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.212 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.151 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.80 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.19 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.7.7 , ≤ 6.7.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.8 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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