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CVE-2024-53143

fsnotify: Fix ordering of iput() and watched_objects decrement PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fsnotify: Fix ordering of iput() and watched_objects decrement Ensure the superblock is kept alive until we're done with iput(). Holding a reference to an inode is not allowed unless we ensure the superblock stays alive, which fsnotify does by keeping the watched_objects count elevated, so iput() must happen before the watched_objects decrement. This can lead to a UAF of something like sb->s_fs_info in tmpfs, but the UAF is hard to hit because race orderings that oops are more likely, thanks to the CHECK_DATA_CORRUPTION() block in generic_shutdown_super(). Also, ensure that fsnotify_put_sb_watched_objects() doesn't call fsnotify_sb_watched_objects() on a superblock that may have already been freed, which would cause a UAF read of sb->s_fsnotify_info.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected d2f277e26f521ccf6fb438463b41dba6123caabe before 45a8f8232a495221ed058191629f5c628f21601a; affected d2f277e26f521ccf6fb438463b41dba6123caabe before 83af1cfa10d9aafdabd06b3655e07727f373b434; affected d2f277e26f521ccf6fb438463b41dba6123caabe before 21d1b618b6b9da46c5116c640ac4b1cc8d40d63a
Linux / Linuxaffected 6.10; unaffected 0 before 6.10; unaffected 6.11.11 through 6.11.*; unaffected 6.12.2 through 6.12.*; unaffected 6.13 through *

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