CVE-2024-41012 — Use After Free in Linux
Severity
6.3MEDIUMNVD
OSV8.8OSV7.1OSV5.5
EPSS
0.0%
top 98.25%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJul 23
Latest updateAug 14
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
filelock: Remove locks reliably when fcntl/close race is detected
When fcntl_setlk() races with close(), it removes the created lock with
do_lock_file_wait().
However, LSMs can allow the first do_lock_file_wait() that created the lock
while denying the second do_lock_file_wait() that tries to remove the lock.
Separately, posix_lock_file() could also fail to
remove a lock due to GFP_KERNEL allocation failure (when splitting a r…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.0 | Impact: 5.2
Affected Packages6 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linuxc293621bbf678a3d85e3ed721c3921c8a670610d — d30ff33040834c3b9eee29740acd92f9c7ba2250+8
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
28OSV▶
linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-hwe, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-4.15, linux-hwe, linux-kvm, linux-oracle vulnerabilities↗2025-01-28