CVE-2024-26957
CVE-2024-26957CVE-2024-26957
linux / linux_kernel
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
s390/zcrypt: fix reference counting on zcrypt card objects
Tests with hot-plugging crytpo cards on KVM guests with debug
kernel build revealed an use after free for the load field of
the struct zcrypt_card. The reason was an incorrect reference
handling of the zcrypt card object which could lead to a free
of the zcrypt card object while it was still in use.
This is an example of the slab message:
kernel: 0x00000000885a7512-0x00000000885a7513 @offset=1298. First byte 0x68 instead of 0x6b
kernel: Allocated in zcrypt_card_alloc+0x36/0x70 [zcrypt] age=18046 cpu=3 pid=43
kernel: kmalloc_trace+0x3f2/0x470
kernel: zcrypt_card_alloc+0x36/0x70 [zcrypt]
kernel: zcrypt_cex4_card_probe+0x26/0x380 [zcrypt_cex4]
kernel: ap_device_probe+0x15c/0x290
kernel: really_probe+0xd2/0x468
kernel: driver_probe_device+0x40/0xf0
kernel: __device_attach_driver+0xc0/0x140
kernel: bus_for_each_drv
Scoring
| CVSS | 7.8 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| Last modified | 2026-08-04 |