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SUSE: CVE-2024-26840: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/17/2024
Created
05/15/2024
Added
05/15/2024
Modified
06/26/2024

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-cluster-md-kmp-64kb
  • suse-upgrade-cluster-md-kmp-azure
  • suse-upgrade-cluster-md-kmp-default
  • suse-upgrade-cluster-md-kmp-rt
  • suse-upgrade-dlm-kmp-64kb
  • suse-upgrade-dlm-kmp-azure
  • suse-upgrade-dlm-kmp-default
  • suse-upgrade-dlm-kmp-rt
  • suse-upgrade-dtb-allwinner
  • suse-upgrade-dtb-altera
  • suse-upgrade-dtb-amazon
  • suse-upgrade-dtb-amd
  • suse-upgrade-dtb-amlogic
  • suse-upgrade-dtb-apm
  • suse-upgrade-dtb-apple
  • suse-upgrade-dtb-arm
  • suse-upgrade-dtb-broadcom
  • suse-upgrade-dtb-cavium
  • suse-upgrade-dtb-exynos
  • suse-upgrade-dtb-freescale
  • suse-upgrade-dtb-hisilicon
  • suse-upgrade-dtb-lg
  • suse-upgrade-dtb-marvell
  • suse-upgrade-dtb-mediatek
  • suse-upgrade-dtb-nvidia
  • suse-upgrade-dtb-qcom
  • suse-upgrade-dtb-renesas
  • suse-upgrade-dtb-rockchip
  • suse-upgrade-dtb-socionext
  • suse-upgrade-dtb-sprd
  • suse-upgrade-dtb-xilinx
  • suse-upgrade-gfs2-kmp-64kb
  • suse-upgrade-gfs2-kmp-azure
  • suse-upgrade-gfs2-kmp-default
  • suse-upgrade-gfs2-kmp-rt
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-64kb
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-64kb-devel
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-64kb-extra
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-64kb-livepatch-devel
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-64kb-optional
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-azure
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-azure-base
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-azure-devel
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-azure-extra
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-azure-livepatch-devel
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-azure-optional
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-azure-vdso
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-debug
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-debug-devel
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-debug-livepatch-devel
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-debug-vdso
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-default
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-default-base
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-default-base-rebuild
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-default-devel
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-default-extra
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-default-livepatch
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-default-livepatch-devel
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-default-man
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-default-optional
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-default-vdso
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-devel
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-devel-azure
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-devel-rt
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-docs
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-docs-html
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-kvmsmall
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-kvmsmall-devel
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-kvmsmall-livepatch-devel
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-kvmsmall-vdso
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-macros
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-obs-build
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-obs-qa
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-preempt
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-preempt-devel
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-rt
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-rt-devel
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-rt-extra
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-rt-livepatch
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-rt-livepatch-devel
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-rt-optional
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-rt-vdso
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-rt_debug
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-rt_debug-devel
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-rt_debug-livepatch-devel
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-rt_debug-vdso
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-source
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-source-azure
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-source-rt
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-source-vanilla
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-syms
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-syms-azure
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-syms-rt
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-zfcpdump
  • suse-upgrade-kselftests-kmp-64kb
  • suse-upgrade-kselftests-kmp-azure
  • suse-upgrade-kselftests-kmp-default
  • suse-upgrade-kselftests-kmp-rt
  • suse-upgrade-ocfs2-kmp-64kb
  • suse-upgrade-ocfs2-kmp-azure
  • suse-upgrade-ocfs2-kmp-default
  • suse-upgrade-ocfs2-kmp-rt
  • suse-upgrade-reiserfs-kmp-64kb
  • suse-upgrade-reiserfs-kmp-azure
  • suse-upgrade-reiserfs-kmp-default
  • suse-upgrade-reiserfs-kmp-rt

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