CVE-2024-56709

CVE-2024-56709

High · published December 29, 2024

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
12.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

io_uring: check if iowq is killed before queuing

task work can be executed after the task has gone through io_uring

termination, whether it's the final task_work run or the fallback path.

In this case, task work will find ->io_wq being already killed and

null'ed, which is a problem if it then tries to forward the request to

io_queue_iowq(). Make io_queue_iowq() fail requests in this case.

Note that it also checks PF_KTHREAD, because the user can first close

a DEFER_TASKRUN ring and shortly after kill the task, in which case

->iowq check would race.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00224 · 12.3th percentile
Published
2024-12-29T14:15Z
Affected products (11)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.14.1, < 6.1.1226.1.122
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.2, < 6.6.686.6.68
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.7, < 6.12.76.12.7
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References (5)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 29 DEC 08:42Z
    io_uring: check if iowq is killed before queuing
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