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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-26901" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-04-17T10:27:50.374Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T00:39:17.331Z" 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-2024-26901" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-26901.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-26901" title: "do_sys_name_to_handle(): use kzalloc() to fix kernel-infoleak" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndo_sys_name_to_handle(): use kzalloc() to fix kernel-infoleak\n\nsyzbot identified a kernel information leak vulnerability in\ndo_sys_name_to_handle() and issued the following report [1].\n\n[1]\n\"BUG: KMSAN: kernel-infoleak in instrument_copy_to_user include/linux/instrumented.h:114 [inline]\nBUG: KMSAN: kernel-infoleak in _copy_to_user+0xbc/0x100 lib/usercopy.c:40\n instrument_copy_to_user include/linux/instrumented.h:114 [inline]\n _copy_to_user+0xbc/0x100 lib/usercopy.c:40\n copy_to_user include/linux/uaccess.h:191 [inline]\n do_sys_name_to_handle fs/fhandle.c:73 [inline]\n __do_sys_name_to_handle_at fs/fhandle.c:112 [inline]\n __se_sys_name_to_handle_at+0x949/0xb10 fs/fhandle.c:94\n __x64_sys_name_to_handle_at+0xe4/0x140 fs/fhandle.c:94\n ...\n\nUninit was created at:\n slab_post_alloc_hook+0x129/0xa70 mm/slab.h:768\n slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3478 [inline]\n __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x5c9/0x970 mm/slub.c:3517\n __do_kmalloc_node mm/slab_common.c:1006 [inline]\n __kmalloc+0x121/0x3c0 mm/slab_common.c:1020\n kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:604 [inline]\n do_sys_name_to_handle fs/fhandle.c:39 [inline]\n __do_sys_name_to_handle_at fs/fhandle.c:112 [inline]\n __se_sys_name_to_handle_at+0x441/0xb10 fs/fhandle.c:94\n __x64_sys_name_to_handle_at+0xe4/0x140 fs/fhandle.c:94\n ...\n\nBytes 18-19 of 20 are uninitialized\nMemory access of size 20 starts at ffff888128a46380\nData copied to user address 0000000020000240\"\n\nPer Chuck Lever's suggestion, use kzalloc() instead of kmalloc() to\nsolve the problem." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"990d6c2d7aee921e3bce22b2d6a750fd552262be","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4bac28f441e3cc9d3f1a84c8d023228a68d8a7c1"},{"version":"990d6c2d7aee921e3bce22b2d6a750fd552262be","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"772a7def9868091da3bcb0d6c6ff9f0c03d7fa8b"},{"version":"990d6c2d7aee921e3bce22b2d6a750fd552262be","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cde76b3af247f615447bcfecf610bb76c3529126"},{"version":"990d6c2d7aee921e3bce22b2d6a750fd552262be","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"423b6bdf19bbc5e1f7e7461045099917378f7e71"},{"version":"990d6c2d7aee921e3bce22b2d6a750fd552262be","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e6450d5e46a737a008b4885aa223486113bf0ad6"},{"version":"990d6c2d7aee921e3bce22b2d6a750fd552262be","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c1362eae861db28b1608b9dc23e49634fe87b63b"},{"version":"990d6c2d7aee921e3bce22b2d6a750fd552262be","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cba138f1ef37ec6f961baeab62f312dedc7cf730"},{"version":"990d6c2d7aee921e3bce22b2d6a750fd552262be","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bf9ec1b24ab4e94345aa1c60811dd329f069c38b"},{"version":"990d6c2d7aee921e3bce22b2d6a750fd552262be","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3948abaa4e2be938ccdfc289385a27342fb13d43"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.39","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.39"},{"version":"4.19.311","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.273","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.214","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.153","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.83","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.23","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.7.11","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.7.*"},{"version":"6.8.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.8.*"},{"version":"6.9","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## 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