cve-2024-26622
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-03-04 06:40
Modified
2024-12-19 08:43
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tomoyo: fix UAF write bug in tomoyo_write_control()
Since tomoyo_write_control() updates head->write_buf when write()
of long lines is requested, we need to fetch head->write_buf after
head->io_sem is held. Otherwise, concurrent write() requests can
cause use-after-free-write and double-free problems.
References
Impacted products
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▼ | Linux | Linux |
Version: bd03a3e4c9a9df0c6b007045fa7fc8889111a478 Version: bd03a3e4c9a9df0c6b007045fa7fc8889111a478 Version: bd03a3e4c9a9df0c6b007045fa7fc8889111a478 Version: bd03a3e4c9a9df0c6b007045fa7fc8889111a478 Version: bd03a3e4c9a9df0c6b007045fa7fc8889111a478 Version: bd03a3e4c9a9df0c6b007045fa7fc8889111a478 |
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