vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2024-38580: kernel: epoll: be better about file lifetimes (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jun 19, 2024
Added
Dec 5, 2024
Modified
Aug 13, 2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

epoll: be better about file lifetimes

epoll can call out to vfs_poll() with a file pointer that may race with
the last 'fput()'. That would make f_count go down to zero, and while
the ep->mtx locking means that the resulting file pointer tear-down will
be blocked until the poll returns, it means that f_count is already
dead, and any use of it won't actually get a reference to the file any
more: it's dead regardless.

Make sure we have a valid ref on the file pointer before we call down to
vfs_poll() from the epoll routines.

Solutions

no-fix-redhat-rpm-packageredhat-upgrade-kernelredhat-upgrade-kernel-rt
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