vulnerability

Oracle Linux: CVE-2024-26630: ELSA-2024-6567: kernel security update (MODERATE)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:C)
Published
Mar 13, 2024
Added
Oct 16, 2024
Modified
Dec 3, 2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm: cachestat: fix folio read-after-free in cache walk
In cachestat, we access the folio from the page cache's xarray to compute
its page offset, and check for its dirty and writeback flags. However, we
do not hold a reference to the folio before performing these actions,
which means the folio can concurrently be released and reused as another
folio/page/slab.
Get around this altogether by just using xarray's existing machinery for
the folio page offsets and dirty/writeback states.
This changes behavior for tmpfs files to now always report zeroes in their
dirty and writeback counters. This is okay as tmpfs doesn't follow
conventional writeback cache behavior: its pages get "cleaned" during
swapout, after which they're no longer resident etc.

Solution

oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel
Title
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