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DEBIAN-CVE-2024-26944

HighCVSS 7.8 / 10
Published May 1, 2024·Last modified Jun 15, 2026
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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: zoned: fix use-after-free in do_zone_finish() Shinichiro reported the following use-after-free triggered by the device replace operation in fstests btrfs/070. BTRFS info (device nullb1): scrub: finished on devid 1 with status: 0 ================================================================== BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in do_zone_finish+0x91a/0xb90 [btrfs] Read of size 8 at addr ffff8881543c8060 by task btrfs-cleaner/3494007 CPU: 0 PID: 3494007 Comm: btrfs-cleaner Tainted: G W 6.8.0-rc5-kts #1 Hardware name: Supermicro Super Server/X11SPi-TF, BIOS 3.3 02/21/2020 Call Trace: <TASK> dump_stack_lvl+0x5b/0x90 print_report+0xcf/0x670 ? __virt_addr_valid+0x200/0x3e0 kasan_report+0xd8/0x110 ? do_zone_finish+0x91a/0xb90 [btrfs] ? do_zone_finish+0x91a/0xb90 [btrfs] do_zone_finish+0x91a/0xb90 [btrfs] btrfs_delete_unused_bgs+0x5e1/0x1750 [btrfs] ? __pfx_btrfs_delete_unused_bgs+0x10/0x10 [btrfs] ? btrfs_put_root+0x2d/0x220 [btrfs] ? btrfs_clean_one_deleted_snapshot+0x299/0x430 [btrfs] cleaner_kthread+0x21e/0x380 [btrfs] ? __pfx_cleaner_kthread+0x10/0x10 [btrfs] kthread+0x2e3/0x3c0 ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 ret_from_fork+0x31/0x70 ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1b/0x30 </TASK> Allocated by task 3493983: kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 __kasan_kmalloc+0xaa/0xb0 btrfs_alloc_device+0xb3/0x4e0 [btrfs] device_list_add.constprop.0+0x993/0x1630 [btrfs] btrfs_scan_one_device+0x219/0x3d0 [btrfs] btrfs_control_ioctl+0x26e/0x310 [btrfs] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x134/0x1b0 do_syscall_64+0x99/0x190 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x76 Freed by task 3494056: kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 kasan_save_free_info+0x3f/0x60 poison_slab_object+0x102/0x170 __kasan_slab_free+0x32/0x70 kfree+0x11b/0x320 btrfs_rm_dev_replace_free_srcdev+0xca/0x280 [btrfs] btrfs_dev_replace_finishing+0xd7e/0x14f0 [btrfs] btrfs_dev_replace_by_ioctl+0x1286/0x25a0 [btrfs] btrfs_ioctl+0xb27/0x57d0 [btrfs] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x134/0x1b0 do_syscall_64+0x99/0x190 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x76 The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff8881543c8000 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-1k of size 1024 The buggy address is located 96 bytes inside of freed 1024-byte region [ffff8881543c8000, ffff8881543c8400) The buggy address belongs to the physical page: page:00000000fe2c1285 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x1543c8 head:00000000fe2c1285 order:3 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0 flags: 0x17ffffc0000840(slab|head|node=0|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x1fffff) page_type: 0xffffffff() raw: 0017ffffc0000840 ffff888100042dc0 ffffea0019e8f200 dead000000000002 raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000100010 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000 page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected Memory state around the buggy address: ffff8881543c7f00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ffff8881543c7f80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 >ffff8881543c8000: fa fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb ^ ffff8881543c8080: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb ffff8881543c8100: fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb fb This UAF happens because we're accessing stale zone information of a already removed btrfs_device in do_zone_finish(). The sequence of events is as follows: btrfs_dev_replace_start btrfs_scrub_dev btrfs_dev_replace_finishing btrfs_dev_replace_update_device_in_mapping_tree <-- devices replaced btrfs_rm_dev_replace_free_srcdev btrfs_free_device <-- device freed cleaner_kthread btrfs_delete_unused_bgs btrfs_zone_finish do_zone_finish <-- refers the freed device The reason for this is that we're using a ---truncated---

Risk Scores
Base Score
7.8

The vulnerability requires local access to the device to be exploited. It is easy for an attacker to exploit this vulnerability. An attacker needs basic access or low-level privileges. No user interaction is needed for the attacker to exploit this vulnerability. The impact is confined to the system where the vulnerability exists. There is a high impact on the confidentiality of the information. There is a high impact on the integrity of the data. There is a high impact on the availability of the system.

Threat Intelligence
7.1

Exploitation activity has been observed. Apply available patches or mitigations urgently.

EPSS
N/A

Probability that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.

Exploit
Not available

We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.

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