CVE-2024-39494

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-416 Use After Free

Publication date:

12/07/2024

Last modified:

06/01/2026

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ima: Fix use-after-free on a dentry&#39;s dname.name ->d_name.name can change on rename and the earlier value can be freed; there are conditions sufficient to stabilize it (->d_lock on dentry, ->d_lock on its parent, ->i_rwsem exclusive on the parent&#39;s inode, rename_lock), but none of those are met at any of the sites. Take a stable snapshot of the name instead.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.80 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

7.80

Severity 3.x

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	3.19 (including)	5.4.291 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.5 (including)	5.10.235 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.11 (including)	5.15.174 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.16 (including)	6.1.97 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.2 (including)	6.6.35 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.7 (including)	6.9.6 (excluding)

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CVE-2024-39494

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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