About vulnerability

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

cachefiles: fix memory leak in cachefiles_add_cache()

The following memory leak was reported after unbinding /dev/cachefiles:

================================================================== unreferenced object 0xffff9b674176e3c0 (size 192): comm “cachefilesd2”, pid 680, jiffies 4294881224 hex dump (first 32 bytes): 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ……………. 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ……………. backtrace (crc ea38a44b): [] kmem_cache_alloc+0x2d5/0x370 [] prepare_creds+0x26/0x2e0 [] cachefiles_determine_cache_security+0x1f/0x120 [] cachefiles_add_cache+0x13c/0x3a0 [] cachefiles_daemon_write+0x146/0x1c0 [] vfs_write+0xcb/0x520 [] ksys_write+0x69/0xf0 [] do_syscall_64+0x72/0x140 [] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x76

Put the reference count of cache_cred in cachefiles_daemon_unbind() to fix the problem. And also put cache_cred in cachefiles_add_cache() error branch to avoid memory leaks.

Affected product:

AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , CentOS 6 ELS , CentOS 7 ELS , CentOS 8.4 ELS , CentOS 8.5 ELS , CentOS Stream 8 ELS , CloudLinux 6 ELS , CloudLinux 7 ELS , Oracle Linux 6 ELS , Oracle Linux 7 ELS , RHEL 7 ELS , Ubuntu 16.04 ELS , Ubuntu 18.04 ELS

Affected packages:

kernel @ 3.10.0 (+14 more)

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

cachefiles: fix memory leak in cachefiles_add_cache()

The following memory leak was reported after unbinding /dev/cachefiles:

================================================================== unreferenced object 0xffff9b674176e3c0 (size 192): comm “cachefilesd2”, pid 680, jiffies 4294881224 hex dump (first 32 bytes): 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ……………. 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ……………. backtrace (crc ea38a44b): [] kmem_cache_alloc+0x2d5/0x370 [] prepare_creds+0x26/0x2e0 [] cachefiles_determine_cache_security+0x1f/0x120 [] cachefiles_add_cache+0x13c/0x3a0 [] cachefiles_daemon_write+0x146/0x1c0 [] vfs_write+0xcb/0x520 [] ksys_write+0x69/0xf0 [] do_syscall_64+0x72/0x140 [] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x76

Put the reference count of cache_cred in cachefiles_daemon_unbind() to fix the problem. And also put cache_cred in cachefiles_add_cache() error branch to avoid memory leaks.