CVE-2023-52909

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 5.19-6.1.6 - Use-After-Free in NFSv4 Open File Caching

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nfsd: fix handling of cached open files in nfsd4_open codepath Commit fb70bf124b05 ("NFSD: Instantiate a struct file when creating a regular NFSv4 file") added the ability to cache an open fd over a compound. There are a couple of problems with the way this currently works: It's racy, as a newly-created nfsd_file can end up with its PENDING bit cleared while the nf is hashed, and the nf_file pointer is still zeroed out. Other tasks can find it in this state and they expect to see a valid nf_file, and can oops if nf_file is NULL. Also, there is no guarantee that we'll end up creating a new nfsd_file if one is already in the hash. If an extant entry is in the hash with a valid nf_file, nfs4_get_vfs_file will clobber its nf_file pointer with the value of op_file and the old nf_file will leak. Fix both issues by making a new nfsd_file_acquirei_opened variant that takes an optional file pointer. If one is present when this is called, we'll take a new reference to it instead of trying to open the file. If the nfsd_file already has a valid nf_file, we'll just ignore the optional file and pass the nfsd_file back as-is. Also rework the tracepoints a bit to allow for an "opened" variant and don't try to avoid counting acquisitions in the case where we already have a cached open file.

Scores

CVSS v3 4.7
EPSS 0.0024
EPSS Percentile 14.4%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-476
Status published
Products (10)
Linux/Linux < 5.19
Linux/Linux 106331a12b0fa5afa6995b1f9ebb03ddcaac6915 - 0b778361998d6c6356b8d2fc7ddf025fb3224654
Linux/Linux 5.19
Linux/Linux 6.1.7 - 6.1.*
Linux/Linux 6.2
Linux/Linux c20097329d2c196b818c4666c7820c1378d69d61 - 45c08a752982116f3287afcd1bd9c50f4fab0c28
Linux/Linux fb70bf124b051d4ded4ce57511dfec6d3ebf2b43 - 0b3a551fa58b4da941efeb209b3770868e2eddd7
Linux/Linux fb70bf124b051d4ded4ce57511dfec6d3ebf2b43 - 973acfdfe90c8a4e58ade97ff0653a498531ff2e
linux/linux_kernel 6.2 rc1 (3 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel 5.19 - 6.1.7
Published Aug 21, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026