Use After Free Affecting kernel-uek-container package, versions <0:5.4.17-2136.342.5.el7uek


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on Oracle Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (9th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ORACLE7-KERNELUEKCONTAINER-9509387
  • published22 Mar 2025
  • disclosed12 Jul 2024

Introduced: 12 Jul 2024

CVE-2024-39494  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:7 kernel-uek-container to version 0:5.4.17-2136.342.5.el7uek or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2025-20271.

NVD Description

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

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

ima: Fix use-after-free on a dentry's dname.name

->d_name.name can change on rename and the earlier value can be freed; there are conditions sufficient to stabilize it (->d_lock on dentry, ->d_lock on its parent, ->i_rwsem exclusive on the parent's inode, rename_lock), but none of those are met at any of the sites. Take a stable snapshot of the name instead.

CVSS Base Scores

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