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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-53166"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-12-27T13:49:12.233Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T00:59:00.482Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:20.494Z"
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-2024-53166"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-53166.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-53166"
title: "block, bfq: fix bfqq uaf in bfq_limit_depth()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nblock, bfq: fix bfqq uaf in bfq_limit_depth()\n\nSet new allocated bfqq to bic or remove freed bfqq from bic are both\nprotected by bfqd-\u003elock, however bfq_limit_depth() is deferencing bfqq\nfrom bic without the lock, this can lead to UAF if the io_context is\nshared by multiple tasks.\n\nFor example, test bfq with io_uring can trigger following UAF in v6.6:\n\n==================================================================\nBUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in bfqq_group+0x15/0x50\n\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n dump_stack_lvl+0x47/0x80\n print_address_description.constprop.0+0x66/0x300\n print_report+0x3e/0x70\n kasan_report+0xb4/0xf0\n bfqq_group+0x15/0x50\n bfqq_request_over_limit+0x130/0x9a0\n bfq_limit_depth+0x1b5/0x480\n __blk_mq_alloc_requests+0x2b5/0xa00\n blk_mq_get_new_requests+0x11d/0x1d0\n blk_mq_submit_bio+0x286/0xb00\n submit_bio_noacct_nocheck+0x331/0x400\n __block_write_full_folio+0x3d0/0x640\n writepage_cb+0x3b/0xc0\n write_cache_pages+0x254/0x6c0\n write_cache_pages+0x254/0x6c0\n do_writepages+0x192/0x310\n filemap_fdatawrite_wbc+0x95/0xc0\n __filemap_fdatawrite_range+0x99/0xd0\n filemap_write_and_wait_range.part.0+0x4d/0xa0\n blkdev_read_iter+0xef/0x1e0\n io_read+0x1b6/0x8a0\n io_issue_sqe+0x87/0x300\n io_wq_submit_work+0xeb/0x390\n io_worker_handle_work+0x24d/0x550\n io_wq_worker+0x27f/0x6c0\n ret_from_fork_asm+0x1b/0x30\n \u003c/TASK\u003e\n\nAllocated by task 808602:\n kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x40\n kasan_set_track+0x21/0x30\n __kasan_slab_alloc+0x83/0x90\n kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x1b1/0x6d0\n bfq_get_queue+0x138/0xfa0\n bfq_get_bfqq_handle_split+0xe3/0x2c0\n bfq_init_rq+0x196/0xbb0\n bfq_insert_request.isra.0+0xb5/0x480\n bfq_insert_requests+0x156/0x180\n blk_mq_insert_request+0x15d/0x440\n blk_mq_submit_bio+0x8a4/0xb00\n submit_bio_noacct_nocheck+0x331/0x400\n __blkdev_direct_IO_async+0x2dd/0x330\n blkdev_write_iter+0x39a/0x450\n io_write+0x22a/0x840\n io_issue_sqe+0x87/0x300\n io_wq_submit_work+0xeb/0x390\n io_worker_handle_work+0x24d/0x550\n io_wq_worker+0x27f/0x6c0\n ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x50\n ret_from_fork_asm+0x1b/0x30\n\nFreed by task 808589:\n kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x40\n kasan_set_track+0x21/0x30\n kasan_save_free_info+0x27/0x40\n __kasan_slab_free+0x126/0x1b0\n kmem_cache_free+0x10c/0x750\n bfq_put_queue+0x2dd/0x770\n __bfq_insert_request.isra.0+0x155/0x7a0\n bfq_insert_request.isra.0+0x122/0x480\n bfq_insert_requests+0x156/0x180\n blk_mq_dispatch_plug_list+0x528/0x7e0\n blk_mq_flush_plug_list.part.0+0xe5/0x590\n __blk_flush_plug+0x3b/0x90\n blk_finish_plug+0x40/0x60\n do_writepages+0x19d/0x310\n filemap_fdatawrite_wbc+0x95/0xc0\n __filemap_fdatawrite_range+0x99/0xd0\n filemap_write_and_wait_range.part.0+0x4d/0xa0\n blkdev_read_iter+0xef/0x1e0\n io_read+0x1b6/0x8a0\n io_issue_sqe+0x87/0x300\n io_wq_submit_work+0xeb/0x390\n io_worker_handle_work+0x24d/0x550\n io_wq_worker+0x27f/0x6c0\n ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x50\n ret_from_fork_asm+0x1b/0x30\n\nFix the problem by protecting bic_to_bfqq() with bfqd-\u003elock."
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