CVE-2024-38385

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-38385
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-38385.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2024-38385
Downstream
Related
Published
2024-06-25T14:22:37Z
Modified
2026-08-12T03:30:08Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
genirq/irqdesc: Prevent use-after-free in irq_find_at_or_after()
Details

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

genirq/irqdesc: Prevent use-after-free in irq_find_at_or_after()

irq_find_at_or_after() dereferences the interrupt descriptor which is returned by mt_find() while neither holding sparse_irq_lock nor RCU read lock, which means the descriptor can be freed between mt_find() and the dereference:

CPU0                            CPU1
desc = mt_find()
                                delayed_free_desc(desc)
irq_desc_get_irq(desc)

The use-after-free is reported by KASAN:

Call trace:
 irq_get_next_irq+0x58/0x84
 show_stat+0x638/0x824
 seq_read_iter+0x158/0x4ec
 proc_reg_read_iter+0x94/0x12c
 vfs_read+0x1e0/0x2c8

Freed by task 4471:
 slab_free_freelist_hook+0x174/0x1e0
 __kmem_cache_free+0xa4/0x1dc
 kfree+0x64/0x128
 irq_kobj_release+0x28/0x3c
 kobject_put+0xcc/0x1e0
 delayed_free_desc+0x14/0x2c
 rcu_do_batch+0x214/0x720

Guard the access with a RCU read lock section.

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/38xxx/CVE-2024-38385.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
721255b9826bd11c7a38b585905fc2dd0fb94e52
Fixed
1c7891812d85500ae2ca4051fa5683fcf29930d8
Fixed
d084aa022f84319f8079e30882cbcbc026af9f21
Fixed
b84a8aba806261d2f759ccedf4a2a6a80a5e55ba

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-38385.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.5.0
Fixed
6.6.34
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.7.0
Fixed
6.9.5

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-38385.json"