System crash via mismatched cachefiles request completion
Published Jul 29, 2024 · Updated Aug 5, 2026
Improper request validation in Linux 5.19 through 6.10-rc3 allows local users to crash the system via cachefiles on-demand I/O. The copen and cread completion paths accept mismatched request types, unread copen IDs, and cread file descriptors belonging to different objects. Exploitation requires local low-privileged access to an active cachefiles on-demand cache; malformed completions corrupt request state and terminate the host.
Summary
What happened
Improper request validation in Linux 5.19 through 6.10-rc3 allows local users to crash the system via cachefiles on-demand I/O. The copen and cread completion paths accept mismatched request types, unread copen IDs, and cread file descriptors belonging to different objects. Exploitation requires local low-privileged access to an active cachefiles on-demand cache; malformed completions corrupt request state and terminate the host.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-41075
- Published
- Jul 29, 2024
- Updated
- Aug 5, 2026
- Vendor
- The Linux Kernel Organization
- Product
- Linux
- Classifications
- T1499
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- Jul 29, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 5, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=5.19
- Affected versionversion=9032b6e8589f269743984aac53e82e4835be16dc <36d845ccd7bf527110a65fe953886a176c209539
- Affected versionversion=9032b6e8589f269743984aac53e82e4835be16dc <3b744884c0431b5a62c92900e64bfd0ed61e8e2a
- Affected versionversion=9032b6e8589f269743984aac53e82e4835be16dc <8aaa6c5dd2940ab934d6cd296175f43dbb32b34a
- Affected versionversion=9032b6e8589f269743984aac53e82e4835be16dc <a26dc49df37e996876f50a0210039b2d211fdd6f
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