Kernel crash via split-bio error-path double free
Published Sep 13, 2024 · Updated Aug 5, 2026
Use-after-free in the Btrfs I/O path in affected Linux releases allows local users to crash the kernel through split read bio errors. In btrfs_submit_chunk(), a mapping failure on the second half of a split read bio calls btrfs_bio_end_io(), whose original end handler frees the parent bio while the submitted first half still references its iterator. Reachability requires local file I/O on a mounted Btrfs filesystem, a bio crossing stripes, and a later mapping error; the resulting stale access or second free corrupts kernel memory and crashes the system.
Summary
What happened
Use-after-free in the Btrfs I/O path in affected Linux releases allows local users to crash the kernel through split read bio errors. In btrfs_submit_chunk(), a mapping failure on the second half of a split read bio calls btrfs_bio_end_io(), whose original end handler frees the parent bio while the submitted first half still references its iterator. Reachability requires local file I/O on a mounted Btrfs filesystem, a bio crossing stripes, and a later mapping error; the resulting stale access or second free corrupts kernel memory and crashes the system.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-46687
- Published
- Sep 13, 2024
- Updated
- Aug 5, 2026
- Vendor
- The Linux Kernel Organization
- Product
- Linux
- Classifications
- CWE-416, CWE-415, T1499.004
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- Sep 13, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 5, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=6.3
- Affected versionversion=852eee62d31abd695cd43e1b875d664ed292a8ca <10d9d8c3512f16cad47b2ff81ec6fc4b27d8ee10
- Affected versionversion=852eee62d31abd695cd43e1b875d664ed292a8ca <4a3b9e1a8e6cd1a8d427a905e159de58d38941cc
- Affected versionversion=852eee62d31abd695cd43e1b875d664ed292a8ca <51722b99f41f5e722ffa10b8f61e802a0e70b331
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