Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-syms package and not the kernel-syms package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.6 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

cachefiles: fix slab-use-after-free in cachefiles_ondemand_daemon_read()

We got the following issue in a fuzz test of randomly issuing the restore command:

================================================================== BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in cachefiles_ondemand_daemon_read+0xb41/0xb60 Read of size 8 at addr ffff888122e84088 by task ondemand-04-dae/963

CPU: 13 PID: 963 Comm: ondemand-04-dae Not tainted 6.8.0-dirty #564 Call Trace: kasan_report+0x93/0xc0 cachefiles_ondemand_daemon_read+0xb41/0xb60 vfs_read+0x169/0xb50 ksys_read+0xf5/0x1e0

Allocated by task 116: kmem_cache_alloc+0x140/0x3a0 cachefiles_lookup_cookie+0x140/0xcd0 fscache_cookie_state_machine+0x43c/0x1230 [...]

Freed by task 792: kmem_cache_free+0xfe/0x390 cachefiles_put_object+0x241/0x480 fscache_cookie_state_machine+0x5c8/0x1230 [...]

Following is the process that triggers the issue:

 mount  |   daemon_thread1    |    daemon_thread2

cachefiles_withdraw_cookie cachefiles_ondemand_clean_object(object) cachefiles_ondemand_send_req REQ_A = kzalloc(sizeof(*req) + data_len) wait_for_completion(&REQ_A->done)

        cachefiles_daemon_read
         cachefiles_ondemand_daemon_read
          REQ_A = cachefiles_ondemand_select_req
          msg->object_id = req->object->ondemand->ondemand_id
                              ------ restore ------
                              cachefiles_ondemand_restore
                              xas_for_each(&xas, req, ULONG_MAX)
                               xas_set_mark(&xas, CACHEFILES_REQ_NEW)

                          cachefiles_daemon_read
                           cachefiles_ondemand_daemon_read
                            REQ_A = cachefiles_ondemand_select_req
      copy_to_user(_buffer, msg, n)
       xa_erase(&cache->reqs, id)
       complete(&REQ_A->done)
      ------ close(fd) ------
      cachefiles_ondemand_fd_release
       cachefiles_put_object

cachefiles_put_object kmem_cache_free(cachefiles_object_jar, object) REQ_A->object->ondemand->ondemand_id // object UAF !!!

When we see the request within xa_lock, req->object must not have been freed yet, so grab the reference count of object before xa_unlock to avoid the above issue.

• https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-39510.html
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/1227734
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3958679c49152391209b32be3357193300a51abd
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/93064676a2820420a2d37d7c8289f277fe20793d
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cb55625f8eb9d2de8be4da0c4580d48cbb32058e
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/da4a827416066191aafeeccee50a8836a826ba10