CVE-2024-53218

HIGH EPSS 12.1%
Published Dec 27, 20241y ago · Modified Jun 17, 20261w ago
7.8 CVSS 3.1
High
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Published Dec 27, 2024 1y ago
Last Modified Jun 17, 2026 1w ago

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: f2fs: fix race in concurrent f2fs_stop_gc_thread In my test case, concurrent calls to f2fs shutdown report the following stack trace: Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xc6cfff63bb5513fc: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 678 Comm: f2fs_rep_shutdo Not tainted 6.12.0-rc5-next-20241029-g6fb2fa9805c5-dirty #85 Call Trace: <TASK> ? show_regs+0x8b/0xa0 ? __die_body+0x26/0xa0 ? die_addr+0x54/0x90 ? exc_general_protection+0x24b/0x5c0 ? asm_exc_general_protection+0x26/0x30 ? kthread_stop+0x46/0x390 f2fs_stop_gc_thread+0x6c/0x110 f2fs_do_shutdown+0x309/0x3a0 f2fs_ioc_shutdown+0x150/0x1c0 __f2fs_ioctl+0xffd/0x2ac0 f2fs_ioctl+0x76/0xe0 vfs_ioctl+0x23/0x60 __x64_sys_ioctl+0xce/0xf0 x64_sys_call+0x2b1b/0x4540 do_syscall_64+0xa7/0x240 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e The root cause is a race condition in f2fs_stop_gc_thread() called from different f2fs shutdown paths: [CPU0] [CPU1] ---------------------- ----------------------- f2fs_stop_gc_thread f2fs_stop_gc_thread gc_th = sbi->gc_thread gc_th = sbi->gc_thread kfree(gc_th) sbi->gc_thread = NULL < gc_th != NULL > kthread_stop(gc_th->f2fs_gc_task) //UAF The commit c7f114d864ac ("f2fs: fix to avoid use-after-free in f2fs_stop_gc_thread()") attempted to fix this issue by using a read semaphore to prevent races between shutdown and remount threads, but it fails to prevent all race conditions. Fix it by converting to write lock of s_umount in f2fs_do_shutdown().

CVSS Details

Base Score
7.8
Exploitability
1.8
Impact
5.9
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required Low
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity High
Availability High

Threat Intelligence

EPSS Exploit Probability
12.1% percentile
Exploit & Patch Status
No Known Exploit
Patch Available

Weaknesses 1

CWE-416 Use After Free Memory Safety

Affected Products 3

VendorProductVersionRange
linuxlinux_kernel*≥4.16  –  <6.6.64
linuxlinux_kernel*≥6.7  –  <6.11.11
linuxlinux_kernel*≥6.12  –  <6.12.2

References 4

  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/60457ed6c67625c87861f96912b4179dc2293896
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/794fa8792d4eacac191f1cbcc2e81b7369e4662a
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7b0033dbc48340a1c1c3f12448ba17d6587ca092
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c631207897a9b3d41167ceca58e07f8f94720e42
    Patch

Remediation

  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/60457ed6c67625c87861f96912b4179dc2293896
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/794fa8792d4eacac191f1cbcc2e81b7369e4662a
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7b0033dbc48340a1c1c3f12448ba17d6587ca092
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c631207897a9b3d41167ceca58e07f8f94720e42
    Patch