Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2024-40935: kernel security update

Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2024-40935: kernel security update

Severity

4

CVSS

(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

Published

07/12/2024

Created

10/10/2024

Added

10/09/2024

Modified

10/09/2024

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cachefiles: flush all requests after setting CACHEFILES_DEAD In ondemand mode, when the daemon is processing an open request, if the kernel flags the cache as CACHEFILES_DEAD, the cachefiles_daemon_write() will always return -EIO, so the daemon can't pass the copen to the kernel. Then the kernel process that is waiting for the copen triggers a hung_task. Since the DEAD state is irreversible, it can only be exited by closing /dev/cachefiles. Therefore, after calling cachefiles_io_error() to mark the cache as CACHEFILES_DEAD, if in ondemand mode, flush all requests to avoid the above hungtask. We may still be able to read some of the cached data before closing the fd of /dev/cachefiles. Note that this relies on the patch that adds reference counting to the req, otherwise it may UAF.

Solution(s)

• huawei-euleros-2_0_sp12-upgrade-bpftool
• huawei-euleros-2_0_sp12-upgrade-kernel
• huawei-euleros-2_0_sp12-upgrade-kernel-abi-stablelists
• huawei-euleros-2_0_sp12-upgrade-kernel-tools
• huawei-euleros-2_0_sp12-upgrade-kernel-tools-libs
• huawei-euleros-2_0_sp12-upgrade-python3-perf

References

• https://attackerkb.com/topics/cve-2024-40935
• CVE - 2024-40935
• EulerOS-SA-2024-2544