{"id":"DEBIAN-CVE-2024-40899","details":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:  cachefiles: fix slab-use-after-free in cachefiles_ondemand_get_fd()  We got the following issue in a fuzz test of randomly issuing the restore command:  ================================================================== BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in cachefiles_ondemand_daemon_read+0x609/0xab0 Write of size 4 at addr ffff888109164a80 by task ondemand-04-dae/4962  CPU: 11 PID: 4962 Comm: ondemand-04-dae Not tainted 6.8.0-rc7-dirty #542 Call Trace:  kasan_report+0x94/0xc0  cachefiles_ondemand_daemon_read+0x609/0xab0  vfs_read+0x169/0xb50  ksys_read+0xf5/0x1e0  Allocated by task 626:  __kmalloc+0x1df/0x4b0  cachefiles_ondemand_send_req+0x24d/0x690  cachefiles_create_tmpfile+0x249/0xb30  cachefiles_create_file+0x6f/0x140  cachefiles_look_up_object+0x29c/0xa60  cachefiles_lookup_cookie+0x37d/0xca0  fscache_cookie_state_machine+0x43c/0x1230  [...]  Freed by task 626:  kfree+0xf1/0x2c0  cachefiles_ondemand_send_req+0x568/0x690  cachefiles_create_tmpfile+0x249/0xb30  cachefiles_create_file+0x6f/0x140  cachefiles_look_up_object+0x29c/0xa60  cachefiles_lookup_cookie+0x37d/0xca0  fscache_cookie_state_machine+0x43c/0x1230  [...] ==================================================================  Following is the process that triggers the issue:       mount  |   daemon_thread1    |    daemon_thread2 ------------------------------------------------------------  cachefiles_ondemand_init_object   cachefiles_ondemand_send_req    REQ_A = kzalloc(sizeof(*req) + data_len)    wait_for_completion(&REQ_A-\u003edone)              cachefiles_daemon_read              cachefiles_ondemand_daemon_read               REQ_A = cachefiles_ondemand_select_req               cachefiles_ondemand_get_fd               copy_to_user(_buffer, msg, n)             process_open_req(REQ_A)                                   ------ restore ------                                   cachefiles_ondemand_restore                                   xas_for_each(&xas, req, ULONG_MAX)                                    xas_set_mark(&xas, CACHEFILES_REQ_NEW);                                    cachefiles_daemon_read                                    cachefiles_ondemand_daemon_read                                     REQ_A = cachefiles_ondemand_select_req               write(devfd, (\"copen %u,%llu\", msg-\u003emsg_id, size));              cachefiles_ondemand_copen               xa_erase(&cache-\u003ereqs, id)               complete(&REQ_A-\u003edone)    kfree(REQ_A)                                     cachefiles_ondemand_get_fd(REQ_A)                                      fd = get_unused_fd_flags                                      file = anon_inode_getfile                                      fd_install(fd, file)                                      load = (void *)REQ_A-\u003emsg.data;                                      load-\u003efd = fd;                                      // load UAF !!!  This issue is caused by issuing a restore command when the daemon is still alive, which results in a request being processed multiple times thus triggering a UAF. So to avoid this problem, add an additional reference count to cachefiles_req, which is held while waiting and reading, and then released when the waiting and reading is over.  Note that since there is only one reference count for waiting, we need to avoid the same request being completed multiple times, so we can only complete the request if it is successfully removed from the xarray.","modified":"2026-09-15T09:03:14.306000237Z","published":"2024-07-12T13:15:13.357Z","upstream":["CVE-2024-40899"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-40899"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"linux","ecosystem":"Debian:12","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source&distro=bookworm"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"6.1.99-1"}]}],"versions":["6.1.27-1","6.1.37-1","6.1.38-1","6.1.38-2","6.1.38-2~bpo11+1","6.1.38-3","6.1.38-4","6.1.38-4~bpo11+1","6.1.52-1","6.1.55-1","6.1.55-1~bpo11+1","6.1.64-1","6.1.66-1","6.1.67-1","6.1.69-1","6.1.69-1~bpo11+1","6.1.76-1","6.1.76-1~bpo11+1","6.1.82-1","6.1.85-1","6.1.90-1","6.1.90-1~bpo11+1","6.1.94-1","6.1.94-1~bpo11+1","6.1.98-1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2024-40899.json"}},{"package":{"name":"linux","ecosystem":"Debian:13","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source&distro=trixie"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"6.9.7-1"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2024-40899.json"}},{"package":{"name":"linux","ecosystem":"Debian:14","purl":"pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source&distro=forky"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"6.9.7-1"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"urgency":"not yet assigned"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2024-40899.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}]}