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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-41057" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-07-29T14:57:19.938Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T11:35:03.575Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:16.009Z" 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-2024-41057" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-41057.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-41057" title: "cachefiles: fix slab-use-after-free in cachefiles_withdraw_cookie()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncachefiles: fix slab-use-after-free in cachefiles_withdraw_cookie()\n\nWe got the following issue in our fault injection stress test:\n\n==================================================================\nBUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in cachefiles_withdraw_cookie+0x4d9/0x600\nRead of size 8 at addr ffff888118efc000 by task kworker/u78:0/109\n\nCPU: 13 PID: 109 Comm: kworker/u78:0 Not tainted 6.8.0-dirty #566\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n kasan_report+0x93/0xc0\n cachefiles_withdraw_cookie+0x4d9/0x600\n fscache_cookie_state_machine+0x5c8/0x1230\n fscache_cookie_worker+0x91/0x1c0\n process_one_work+0x7fa/0x1800\n [...]\n\nAllocated by task 117:\n kmalloc_trace+0x1b3/0x3c0\n cachefiles_acquire_volume+0xf3/0x9c0\n fscache_create_volume_work+0x97/0x150\n process_one_work+0x7fa/0x1800\n [...]\n\nFreed by task 120301:\n kfree+0xf1/0x2c0\n cachefiles_withdraw_cache+0x3fa/0x920\n cachefiles_put_unbind_pincount+0x1f6/0x250\n cachefiles_daemon_release+0x13b/0x290\n __fput+0x204/0xa00\n task_work_run+0x139/0x230\n do_exit+0x87a/0x29b0\n [...]\n==================================================================\n\nFollowing is the process that triggers the issue:\n\n p1 | p2\n------------------------------------------------------------\n fscache_begin_lookup\n fscache_begin_volume_access\n fscache_cache_is_live(fscache_cache)\ncachefiles_daemon_release\n cachefiles_put_unbind_pincount\n cachefiles_daemon_unbind\n cachefiles_withdraw_cache\n fscache_withdraw_cache\n fscache_set_cache_state(cache, FSCACHE_CACHE_IS_WITHDRAWN);\n cachefiles_withdraw_objects(cache)\n fscache_wait_for_objects(fscache)\n atomic_read(&fscache_cache-\u003eobject_count) == 0\n fscache_perform_lookup\n cachefiles_lookup_cookie\n cachefiles_alloc_object\n refcount_set(&object-\u003eref, 1);\n object-\u003evolume = volume\n fscache_count_object(vcookie-\u003ecache);\n atomic_inc(&fscache_cache-\u003eobject_count)\n cachefiles_withdraw_volumes\n cachefiles_withdraw_volume\n fscache_withdraw_volume\n __cachefiles_free_volume\n kfree(cachefiles_volume)\n fscache_cookie_state_machine\n cachefiles_withdraw_cookie\n cache = object-\u003evolume-\u003ecache;\n // cachefiles_volume UAF !!!\n\nAfter setting FSCACHE_CACHE_IS_WITHDRAWN, wait for all the cookie lookups\nto complete first, and then wait for fscache_cache-\u003eobject_count == 0 to\navoid the cookie exiting after the volume has been freed and triggering\nthe above issue. Therefore call fscache_withdraw_volume() before calling\ncachefiles_withdraw_objects().\n\nThis way, after setting FSCACHE_CACHE_IS_WITHDRAWN, only the following two\ncases will occur:\n1) fscache_begin_lookup fails in fscache_begin_volume_access().\n2) fscache_withdraw_volume() will ensure that fscache_count_object() has\n been executed before calling fscache_wait_for_objects()." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"fe2140e2f57fef8562e0f9b7cd447d2b08dc2f35","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8de253177112a47c9af157d23ae934779188b4e1"},{"version":"fe2140e2f57fef8562e0f9b7cd447d2b08dc2f35","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9e67589a4a7b7e5660b524d1d5fe61242bcbcc11"},{"version":"fe2140e2f57fef8562e0f9b7cd447d2b08dc2f35","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ef81340401e8a371d6b17f69e76d861920972cfe"},{"version":"fe2140e2f57fef8562e0f9b7cd447d2b08dc2f35","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5d8f805789072ea7fd39504694b7bd17e5f751c4"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.17","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.17"},{"version":"6.1.101","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.42","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.9.11","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.9.*"},{"version":"6.10","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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