CVE-2024-26993 Affecting kernel-debug-devel package, versions <0:4.18.0-305.141.1.el8_4
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL8-KERNELDEBUGDEVEL-8083224
- published 24 Sep 2024
- disclosed 1 May 2024
Introduced: 1 May 2024
CVE-2024-26993 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade RHEL:8 kernel-debug-devel to version 0:4.18.0-305.141.1.el8_4 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2024:7002.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-debug-devel package and not the kernel-debug-devel package as distributed by RHEL.
See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fs: sysfs: Fix reference leak in sysfs_break_active_protection()
The sysfs_break_active_protection() routine has an obvious reference leak in its error path. If the call to kernfs_find_and_get() fails then kn will be NULL, so the companion sysfs_unbreak_active_protection() routine won't get called (and would only cause an access violation by trying to dereference kn->parent if it was called). As a result, the reference to kobj acquired at the start of the function will never be released.
Fix the leak by adding an explicit kobject_put() call when kn is NULL.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-26993
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4EZ6PJW7VOZ224TD7N4JZNU6KV32ZJ53/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DAMSOZXJEPUOXW33WZYWCVAY7Z5S7OOY/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GCBZZEC7L7KTWWAS2NLJK6SO3IZIL4WW/
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/43f00210cb257bcb0387e8caeb4b46375d67f30c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/57baab0f376bec8f54b0fe6beb8f77a57c228063
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d43e072285e81b0b63cee7189b3357c7768a43b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/84bd4c2ae9c3d0a7d3a5c032ea7efff17af17e17
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a4c99b57d43bab45225ba92d574a8683f9edc8e4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a90bca2228c0646fc29a72689d308e5fe03e6d78
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ac107356aabc362aaeb77463e814fc067a5d3957
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f28bba37fe244889b81bb5c508d3f6e5c6e342c5
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00017.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00020.html