ghsa-hxvp-53j6-m4qh
Vulnerability from github
Published
2024-06-19 15:30
Modified
2025-10-21 00:30
Severity ?
4.7 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details

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

epoll: be better about file lifetimes

epoll can call out to vfs_poll() with a file pointer that may race with the last 'fput()'. That would make f_count go down to zero, and while the ep->mtx locking means that the resulting file pointer tear-down will be blocked until the poll returns, it means that f_count is already dead, and any use of it won't actually get a reference to the file any more: it's dead regardless.

Make sure we have a valid ref on the file pointer before we call down to vfs_poll() from the epoll routines.

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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2024-38580"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2024-06-19T14:15:18Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nepoll: be better about file lifetimes\n\nepoll can call out to vfs_poll() with a file pointer that may race with\nthe last \u0027fput()\u0027. That would make f_count go down to zero, and while\nthe ep-\u003emtx locking means that the resulting file pointer tear-down will\nbe blocked until the poll returns, it means that f_count is already\ndead, and any use of it won\u0027t actually get a reference to the file any\nmore: it\u0027s dead regardless.\n\nMake sure we have a valid ref on the file pointer before we call down to\nvfs_poll() from the epoll routines.",
  "id": "GHSA-hxvp-53j6-m4qh",
  "modified": "2025-10-21T00:30:25Z",
  "published": "2024-06-19T15:30:53Z",
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}


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