Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
vduse: hold vduse_lock across IDR lookup in open path
vduse_dev_open() looks up struct vduse_dev through the IDR and then acquires dev->lock only after vduse_lock has been dropped.
This leaves a window where a concurrent VDUSE_DESTROY_DEV can remove the same object from the IDR and free it before the open path locks the device, leading to a use-after-free.
Close this race by keeping vduse_lock held until dev->lock has been acquired in the open path, matching the lock ordering already used by the destroy path.
Details
- Affected product:
- AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , Debian 10 ELS , TuxCare 9.6 ESU , TuxCare 9.8 ESU , Ubuntu 20.04 ELS
- Affected packages:
- linux @ 4.19.0 (+4 more)
Fixes
KernelCare state
Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.
| Operating system | Status | Covered kernels |
|---|---|---|
| Debian 13 | Released |
13 kernels
|
| Oracle Linux 8 UEK 7 | Released |
112 kernels
|
| Oracle Linux 9 UEK 7 | Released |
112 kernels
|
| Ubuntu 22.04 | Planned | — |
| Ubuntu 22.04 AWS | Planned | — |
| Ubuntu 22.04 Azure | Planned | — |
| Ubuntu 24.04 | Planned | — |
| Ubuntu 24.04 AWS | Planned | — |
| Ubuntu 26.04 | Will Not Fix | — |