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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2024-38583): Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
---|---|---|---|---|
7 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C) | 06/19/2024 | 08/09/2024 | 01/30/2025 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nilfs2: fix use-after-free of timer for log writer thread
Patch series "nilfs2: fix log writer related issues".
This bug fix series covers three nilfs2 log writer-related issues,
including a timer use-after-free issue and potential deadlock issue on
unmount, and a potential freeze issue in event synchronization found
during their analysis. Details are described in each commit log.
This patch (of 3):
A use-after-free issue has been reported regarding the timer sc_timer on
the nilfs_sc_info structure.
The problem is that even though it is used to wake up a sleeping log
writer thread, sc_timer is not shut down until the nilfs_sc_info structure
is about to be freed, and is used regardless of the thread's lifetime.
Fix this issue by limiting the use of sc_timer only while the log writer
thread is alive.
Solution(s)
References
- CVE-2024-38583
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2024-38583
- UBUNTU-USN-6949-1
- UBUNTU-USN-6949-2
- UBUNTU-USN-6951-1
- UBUNTU-USN-6951-2
- UBUNTU-USN-6951-3
- UBUNTU-USN-6951-4
- UBUNTU-USN-6952-1
- UBUNTU-USN-6952-2
- UBUNTU-USN-6953-1
- UBUNTU-USN-6955-1
- UBUNTU-USN-6979-1
- UBUNTU-USN-7007-1
- UBUNTU-USN-7007-2
- UBUNTU-USN-7007-3
- UBUNTU-USN-7009-1
- UBUNTU-USN-7009-2
- UBUNTU-USN-7019-1
- UBUNTU-USN-7028-1
- UBUNTU-USN-7028-2
- UBUNTU-USN-7039-1

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