CVE-2024-45003 — Improper Locking in Linux
Severity
4.7MEDIUMNVD
OSV8.8OSV7.1OSV5.5
EPSS
0.0%
top 97.57%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedSep 4
Latest updateAug 14
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
vfs: Don't evict inode under the inode lru traversing context
The inode reclaiming process(See function prune_icache_sb) collects all
reclaimable inodes and mark them with I_FREEING flag at first, at that
time, other processes will be stuck if they try getting these inodes
(See function find_inode_fast), then the reclaiming process destroy the
inodes by function dispose_list(). Some filesystems(eg. ext4 with
ea_inode feature, …
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.0 | Impact: 3.6