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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-26840" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-04-17T10:10:06.180Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T20:05:09.433Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:07.518Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-26840" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-26840.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-26840" title: "cachefiles: fix memory leak in cachefiles_add_cache()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncachefiles: fix memory leak in cachefiles_add_cache()\n\nThe following memory leak was reported after unbinding /dev/cachefiles:\n\n==================================================================\nunreferenced object 0xffff9b674176e3c0 (size 192):\n comm \"cachefilesd2\", pid 680, jiffies 4294881224\n hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................\n 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................\n backtrace (crc ea38a44b):\n [\u003cffffffff8eb8a1a5\u003e] kmem_cache_alloc+0x2d5/0x370\n [\u003cffffffff8e917f86\u003e] prepare_creds+0x26/0x2e0\n [\u003cffffffffc002eeef\u003e] cachefiles_determine_cache_security+0x1f/0x120\n [\u003cffffffffc00243ec\u003e] cachefiles_add_cache+0x13c/0x3a0\n [\u003cffffffffc0025216\u003e] cachefiles_daemon_write+0x146/0x1c0\n [\u003cffffffff8ebc4a3b\u003e] vfs_write+0xcb/0x520\n [\u003cffffffff8ebc5069\u003e] ksys_write+0x69/0xf0\n [\u003cffffffff8f6d4662\u003e] do_syscall_64+0x72/0x140\n [\u003cffffffff8f8000aa\u003e] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x76\n==================================================================\n\nPut the reference count of cache_cred in cachefiles_daemon_unbind() to\nfix the problem. And also put cache_cred in cachefiles_add_cache() error\nbranch to avoid memory leaks." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"9ae326a69004dea8af2dae4fde58de27db700a8d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cb5466783793e66272624cf71925ae1d1ba32083"},{"version":"9ae326a69004dea8af2dae4fde58de27db700a8d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"037d5a949b0455540ef9aab34c10ddf54b65d285"},{"version":"9ae326a69004dea8af2dae4fde58de27db700a8d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"43eccc5823732ba6daab2511ed32dfc545a666d8"},{"version":"9ae326a69004dea8af2dae4fde58de27db700a8d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"94965be37add0983672e48ecb33cdbda92b62579"},{"version":"9ae326a69004dea8af2dae4fde58de27db700a8d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8b218e2f0a27a9f09428b1847b4580640b9d1e58"},{"version":"9ae326a69004dea8af2dae4fde58de27db700a8d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"38e921616320d159336b0ffadb09e9fb4945c7c3"},{"version":"9ae326a69004dea8af2dae4fde58de27db700a8d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9cac69912052a4def571fedf1cb9bb4ec590e25a"},{"version":"9ae326a69004dea8af2dae4fde58de27db700a8d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e21a2f17566cbd64926fb8f16323972f7a064444"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.30","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.30"},{"version":"4.19.309","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.271","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.212","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.151","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.80","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.19","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.7.7","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.7.*"},{"version":"6.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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