Conditional kernel memory corruption via post-free callback
Published Oct 21, 2024 · Updated Aug 5, 2026
Use-after-free in Linux 6.8 through 6.10.12 and 6.11 through 6.11.1 allows local users to corrupt memory if an IAA free callback exists. The remove_device_compression_modes function releases device_mode through free_device_compression_mode, then passes the freed pointer to iaa_compression_modes[i]->free. The path requires Intel IAA hardware and a non-NULL free callback; upstream states that no implementation supplies the callback, so the call is dead code in mainline kernels.
Summary
What happened
Use-after-free in Linux 6.8 through 6.10.12 and 6.11 through 6.11.1 allows local users to corrupt memory if an IAA free callback exists. The remove_device_compression_modes function releases device_mode through free_device_compression_mode, then passes the freed pointer to iaa_compression_modes[i]->free. The path requires Intel IAA hardware and a non-NULL free callback; upstream states that no implementation supplies the callback, so the call is dead code in mainline kernels.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-47732
- Published
- Oct 21, 2024
- Updated
- Aug 5, 2026
- Vendor
- The Linux Kernel Organization
- Product
- Linux
- Classifications
- CWE-416
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
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- Oct 21, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 5, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=6.8
- Affected versionversion=b190447e0fa3ef7355480d641d078962e03768b4 <b5d534b473e2c8d3e4560be2dd6c12a8eb9d61e9
- Affected versionversion=b190447e0fa3ef7355480d641d078962e03768b4 <c66f0be993ba52410edab06124c54ecf143b05c1
- Affected versionversion=b190447e0fa3ef7355480d641d078962e03768b4 <e0d3b845a1b10b7b5abdad7ecc69d45b2aab3209
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