CVE-2024-41057
CVE-2024-41057CVE-2024-41057
linux / linux_kernel
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cachefiles: fix slab-use-after-free in cachefiles_withdraw_cookie()
We got the following issue in our fault injection stress test:
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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in cachefiles_withdraw_cookie+0x4d9/0x600
Read of size 8 at addr ffff888118efc000 by task kworker/u78:0/109
CPU: 13 PID: 109 Comm: kworker/u78:0 Not tainted 6.8.0-dirty #566
Call Trace:
<TASK>
kasan_report+0x93/0xc0
cachefiles_withdraw_cookie+0x4d9/0x600
fscache_cookie_state_machine+0x5c8/0x1230
fscache_cookie_worker+0x91/0x1c0
process_one_work+0x7fa/0x1800
[...]
Allocated by task 117:
kmalloc_trace+0x1b3/0x3c0
cachefiles_acquire_volume+0xf3/0x9c0
fscache_create_volume_work+0x97/0x150
process_one_work+0x7fa/0x1800
[...]
Freed by task 120301:
kfree+0xf1/0x2c0
cachefiles_withdraw_cache+0x3fa/0x920
cachefiles_put_unbind_pincount+0x1f6/0x250
cachefiles_daemon_release+0x13b/0x
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 |