CVE-2024-57896 — Use After Free in Linux
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
OSV7.1OSV6.2OSV5.5
EPSS
0.0%
top 93.56%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJan 15
Latest updateMay 29
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: flush delalloc workers queue before stopping cleaner kthread during unmount
During the unmount path, at close_ctree(), we first stop the cleaner
kthread, using kthread_stop() which frees the associated task_struct, and
then stop and destroy all the work queues. However after we stopped the
cleaner we may still have a worker from the delalloc_workers queue running
inode.c:submit_compressed_extents(), which calls btrfs_ad…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9
Affected Packages6 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linuxfd340d0f68cc87badfc9efcb226f23a5428826a0 — a2718ed1eb8c3611b63f8933c7e68c8821fe2808+6