CVE-2024-47660 — Race Condition in Linux
Severity
4.7MEDIUMNVD
OSV8.8OSV7.1OSV5.5
EPSS
0.0%
top 98.57%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedOct 9
Latest updateAug 14
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fsnotify: clear PARENT_WATCHED flags lazily
In some setups directories can have many (usually negative) dentries.
Hence __fsnotify_update_child_dentry_flags() function can take a
significant amount of time. Since the bulk of this function happens
under inode->i_lock this causes a significant contention on the lock
when we remove the watch from the directory as the
__fsnotify_update_child_dentry_flags() call from fsnotify_recal…
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
Affected Packages6 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux873feea09ebc980cbd3631b767356ce1eee65ec1 — 3f3ef1d9f66b93913ce2171120d9226b55acd41d+6