Improper Update of Reference Count The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-cross-headers (opens in a new tab)
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-KERNELCROSSHEADERS-12454902
- published3 Sept 2025
- disclosed12 Jul 2024
Introduced: 12 Jul 2024
CVE-2024-40913 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:9.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-cross-headers package and not the kernel-cross-headers package as distributed by RHEL.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cachefiles: defer exposing anon_fd until after copy_to_user() succeeds
After installing the anonymous fd, we can now see it in userland and close it. However, at this point we may not have gotten the reference count of the cache, but we will put it during colse fd, so this may cause a cache UAF.
So grab the cache reference count before fd_install(). In addition, by kernel convention, fd is taken over by the user land after fd_install(), and the kernel should not call close_fd() after that, i.e., it should call fd_install() after everything is ready, thus fd_install() is called after copy_to_user() succeeds.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-40913
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4b4391e77a6bf24cba2ef1590e113d9b73b11039
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b9f58cdae6a364a3270fd6b6a46e0fd4f7f8ce32
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d2d3eb377a5d081bf2bed177d354a4f59b74da88
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eac51d9daacd61dcc93333ff6a890cf3efc8c1c0