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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2024-26840): Linux kernel vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2024-26840): Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/17/2024
Created
07/02/2024
Added
07/01/2024
Modified
08/12/2024

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)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-15-0-1133-oracle
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-15-0-1154-kvm
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-15-0-1164-gcp
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-15-0-1170-aws
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-15-0-1179-azure
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-15-0-227-generic
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-15-0-227-lowlatency
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-4-0-1134-aws
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-4-0-1135-kvm
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-4-0-1172-aws
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-4-0-257-generic
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-4-0-257-lowlatency
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-1030-xilinx-zynqmp
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-1046-gkeop
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-1056-ibm
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-1057-ibm
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-1058-intel-iotg
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-1058-nvidia
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-1058-nvidia-lowlatency
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-1058-raspi
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-1060-gke
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-1060-kvm
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-1061-oracle
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-1062-gcp
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-1063-aws
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-1065-azure-fde
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-1066-azure
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-110-lowlatency
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-110-lowlatency-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-112-generic
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-112-generic-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-112-generic-lpae
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-113-generic
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-113-generic-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-15-0-113-generic-lpae
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-4-0-1045-xilinx-zynqmp
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-4-0-1073-ibm
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-4-0-1093-gkeop
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-4-0-1110-raspi
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-4-0-1114-kvm
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-4-0-1125-oracle
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-4-0-1126-aws
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-4-0-1130-gcp
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-4-0-1131-azure
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-4-0-186-generic
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-4-0-186-generic-lpae
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-5-4-0-186-lowlatency
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-aws
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-aws-hwe
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-aws-lts-18-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-aws-lts-20-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-aws-lts-22-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-azure
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-azure-fde-lts-22-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-azure-lts-18-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-azure-lts-20-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-azure-lts-22-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-gcp
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-gcp-lts-18-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-gcp-lts-20-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-gcp-lts-22-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-64k-hwe-20-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-hwe-16-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-hwe-18-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-hwe-20-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-lpae
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-lpae-hwe-20-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-lts-xenial
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-gke
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-gke-5-15
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-gkeop
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-gkeop-5-15
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-gkeop-5-4
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-ibm
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-ibm-lts-20-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-intel
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-intel-iotg
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-kvm
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-lowlatency
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-lowlatency-64k
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-lowlatency-64k-hwe-20-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-lowlatency-hwe-16-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-lowlatency-hwe-18-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-lowlatency-hwe-20-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-lowlatency-lts-xenial
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-nvidia
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-nvidia-lowlatency
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oem
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oem-20-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oem-20-04b
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oem-20-04c
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oem-20-04d
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oem-osp1
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oracle
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oracle-lts-18-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oracle-lts-20-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-oracle-lts-22-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-raspi
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-raspi-hwe-18-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-raspi-nolpae
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-raspi2
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-snapdragon-hwe-18-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-virtual
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-virtual-hwe-16-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-virtual-hwe-18-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-virtual-hwe-20-04
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-virtual-lts-xenial
  • ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-xilinx-zynqmp

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