Import Source
https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-55195.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/AZL-55195
Upstream
Published
2024-12-27T14:15:34Z
Modified
2026-04-01T05:18:31.961094Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
CVE-2024-56549 affecting package kernel for versions less than 6.6.78.1-1
Details

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

cachefiles: Fix NULL pointer dereference in object->file

At present, the object->file has the NULL pointer dereference problem in ondemand-mode. The root cause is that the allocated fd and object->file lifetime are inconsistent, and the user-space invocation to anon_fd uses object->file. Following is the process that triggers the issue:

  [write fd]                [umount]

cachefilesondemandfdwriteiter fscachecookiestatemachine cachefileswithdrawcookie if (!file) return -ENOBUFS cachefilescleanupobject cachefilesunmarkinodeinuse fput(object->file) object->file = NULL // file NULL pointer dereference! _cachefileswrite(..., file, ...)

Fix this issue by add an additional reference count to the object->file before write/llseek, and decrement after it finished.

References

Affected packages

Azure Linux:3 / kernel

Package

Name
kernel
Purl
pkg:rpm/azure-linux/kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.6.78.1-1

Database specific

source
"https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-55195.json"