Use After Free Affecting perf package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.28% (20th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS7-PERF-7523880
  • published17 Jul 2024
  • disclosed12 Jul 2024

Introduced: 12 Jul 2024

CVE-2024-40909  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Centos:7 perf.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream perf package and not the perf package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

bpf: Fix a potential use-after-free in bpf_link_free()

After commit 1a80dbcb2dba, bpf_link can be freed by link->ops->dealloc_deferred, but the code still tests and uses link->ops->dealloc afterward, which leads to a use-after-free as reported by syzbot. Actually, one of them should be sufficient, so just call one of them instead of both. Also add a WARN_ON() in case of any problematic implementation.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1