CVE-2024-42250

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 6.8-6.9.10 - Improper Locking in Cachefiles Poll Routine

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cachefiles: add missing lock protection when polling Add missing lock protection in poll routine when iterating xarray, otherwise: Even with RCU read lock held, only the slot of the radix tree is ensured to be pinned there, while the data structure (e.g. struct cachefiles_req) stored in the slot has no such guarantee. The poll routine will iterate the radix tree and dereference cachefiles_req accordingly. Thus RCU read lock is not adequate in this case and spinlock is needed here.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0016
EPSS Percentile 6.1%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/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-667
Status published
Products (10)
linux/Kernel 6.8.0 - 6.9.10linux
Linux/Linux < 6.8
Linux/Linux 0e19a18f998dcabe8be590e0b39660a1f230209b - 97cfd5e20ddc2e33e16ce369626ce76c9a475fd7
Linux/Linux 18943864342705fa18dd4e6b8d608491fec81f6e - 6bb6bd3dd6f382dfd36220d4b210a0c77c066651
Linux/Linux 6.10
Linux/Linux 6.8
Linux/Linux 6.9.10 - 6.9.*
Linux/Linux b817e22b2e91257ace32a6768c3c003faeaa1c5c - 8eadcab7f3dd809edbe5ae20533ff843dfea3a07
Linux/Linux b817e22b2e91257ace32a6768c3c003faeaa1c5c - cf5bb09e742a9cf6349127e868329a8f69b7a014
linux/linux_kernel 6.8 - 6.9.10
Published Aug 07, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026