CVE-2024-57942

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 6.12-6.12.9 - Denial of Service via netfs Unlock Read Folio Race

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfs: Fix ceph copy to cache on write-begin At the end of netfs_unlock_read_folio() in which folios are marked appropriately for copying to the cache (either with by being marked dirty and having their private data set or by having PG_private_2 set) and then unlocked, the folio_queue struct has the entry pointing to the folio cleared. This presents a problem for netfs_pgpriv2_write_to_the_cache(), which is used to write folios marked with PG_private_2 to the cache as it expects to be able to trawl the folio_queue list thereafter to find the relevant folios, leading to a hang. Fix this by not clearing the folio_queue entry if we're going to do the deprecated copy-to-cache. The clearance will be done instead as the folios are written to the cache. This can be reproduced by starting cachefiles, mounting a ceph filesystem with "-o fsc" and writing to it.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0017
EPSS Percentile 7.0%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (9)
linux/Kernel 6.12.0 - 6.12.10linux
Linux/Linux < 6.12
Linux/Linux 6.12
Linux/Linux 6.12.10 - 6.12.*
Linux/Linux 6.13
Linux/Linux ee4cdf7ba857a894ad1650d6ab77669cbbfa329e - 38cf8e945721ffe708fa675507465da7f4f2a9f7
Linux/Linux ee4cdf7ba857a894ad1650d6ab77669cbbfa329e - 43b8d3249b0b71bad239d42dbe08ce6c938ba000
linux/linux_kernel 6.13 rc1 (6 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel 6.12 - 6.12.10
Published Jan 21, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026