In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm: cachestat: fix folio read-after-free in cache walk
In cachestat, we access the folio from the page cache's xarray to compute
its page offset, and check for its dirty and writeback flags. However, we
do not hold a reference to the folio before performing these actions,
which means the folio can concurrently be released and reused as another
folio/page/slab.
Get around this altogether by just using xarray's existing machinery for
the folio page offsets and dirty/writeback states.
This changes behavior for tmpfs files to now always report zeroes in their
dirty and writeback counters. This is okay as tmpfs doesn't follow
conventional writeback cache behavior: its pages get "cleaned" during
swapout, after which they're no longer resident etc.
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Affected Vendors & Products
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History
Wed, 11 Sep 2024 11:00:00 +0000
Type | Values Removed | Values Added |
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First Time appeared |
Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux |
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CPEs | cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9 |
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Vendors & Products |
Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux |
MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: Linux
Published: 2024-03-13T15:50:32.480Z
Updated: 2024-11-05T09:12:52.548Z
Reserved: 2024-02-19T14:20:24.135Z
Link: CVE-2024-26630
Vulnrichment
Updated: 2024-08-02T00:07:19.749Z
NVD
Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2024-03-13T16:15:30.047
Modified: 2024-11-21T09:02:43.470
Link: CVE-2024-26630
Redhat