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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-49870" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-10-21T18:01:12.048Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T20:40:49.741Z" 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-2024-49870" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-49870.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-49870" title: "cachefiles: fix dentry leak in cachefiles_open_file()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncachefiles: fix dentry leak in cachefiles_open_file()\n\nA dentry leak may be caused when a lookup cookie and a cull are concurrent:\n\n P1 | P2\n-----------------------------------------------------------\ncachefiles_lookup_cookie\n cachefiles_look_up_object\n lookup_one_positive_unlocked\n // get dentry\n cachefiles_cull\n inode-\u003ei_flags |= S_KERNEL_FILE;\n cachefiles_open_file\n cachefiles_mark_inode_in_use\n __cachefiles_mark_inode_in_use\n can_use = false\n if (!(inode-\u003ei_flags & S_KERNEL_FILE))\n can_use = true\n\t return false\n return false\n // Returns an error but doesn't put dentry\n\nAfter that the following WARNING will be triggered when the backend folder\nis umounted:\n\n==================================================================\nBUG: Dentry 000000008ad87947{i=7a,n=Dx_1_1.img} still in use (1) [unmount of ext4 sda]\nWARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 359261 at fs/dcache.c:1767 umount_check+0x5d/0x70\nCPU: 4 PID: 359261 Comm: umount Not tainted 6.6.0-dirty #25\nRIP: 0010:umount_check+0x5d/0x70\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n d_walk+0xda/0x2b0\n do_one_tree+0x20/0x40\n shrink_dcache_for_umount+0x2c/0x90\n generic_shutdown_super+0x20/0x160\n kill_block_super+0x1a/0x40\n ext4_kill_sb+0x22/0x40\n deactivate_locked_super+0x35/0x80\n cleanup_mnt+0x104/0x160\n==================================================================\n\nWhether cachefiles_open_file() returns true or false, the reference count\nobtained by lookup_positive_unlocked() in cachefiles_look_up_object()\nshould be released.\n\nTherefore release that reference count in cachefiles_look_up_object() to\nfix the above issue and simplify the code." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1f08c925e7a38002bde509e66f6f891468848511","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d32ff64c872d7e08e893c32ba6a2374583444410"},{"version":"1f08c925e7a38002bde509e66f6f891468848511","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c7d10fa7d7691558ff967668494672415f5fa151"},{"version":"1f08c925e7a38002bde509e66f6f891468848511","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e4a28489b310339b2b8187bec0a437709be551c1"},{"version":"1f08c925e7a38002bde509e66f6f891468848511","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7fa2382f97421978514a419c93054eca69f5247b"},{"version":"1f08c925e7a38002bde509e66f6f891468848511","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"da6ef2dffe6056aad3435e6cf7c6471c2a62187c"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.17","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.17"},{"version":"6.1.113","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.55","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.10.14","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.10.*"},{"version":"6.11.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.11.*"},{"version":"6.12","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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