Use After Free Affecting kernel-headers package, versions <0:5.14.0-284.90.1.el9_2


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-KERNELHEADERS-8311741
  • published31 Oct 2024
  • disclosed29 Jul 2024

Introduced: 29 Jul 2024

CVE-2024-41049  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)
First added by Snyk

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:9 kernel-headers to version 0:5.14.0-284.90.1.el9_2 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2024:8613.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-headers package and not the kernel-headers package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

filelock: fix potential use-after-free in posix_lock_inode

Light Hsieh reported a KASAN UAF warning in trace_posix_lock_inode(). The request pointer had been changed earlier to point to a lock entry that was added to the inode's list. However, before the tracepoint could fire, another task raced in and freed that lock.

Fix this by moving the tracepoint inside the spinlock, which should ensure that this doesn't happen.

CVSS Scores

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