CVE-2024-26900 md: fix kmemleak of rdev->serial
A memory leak in the Linux kernel's md driver can lead to resource exhaustion and denial of service when kobject_add fails.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2024-26900?
CVE-2024-26900 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 17 Apr 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
md: fix kmemleak of rdev->serial
If kobject_add() is fail in bind_rdev_to_array(), 'rdev->serial' will be alloc not be freed, and kmemleak occurs.
unreferenced object 0xffff88815a350000 (size 49152): comm "mdadm", pid 789, jiffies 4294716910 hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace (crc f773277a): [<0000000058b0a453>] kmemleak_alloc+0x61/0xe0 [<00000000366adf14>] __kmalloc_large_node+0x15e/0x270 [<000000002e82961b>] __kmalloc_node.cold+0x11/0x7f [<00000000f206d60a>] kvmalloc_node+0x74/0x150 [<0000000034bf3363>] rdev_init_serial+0x67/0x170 [<0000000010e08fe9>] mddev_create_serial_pool+0x62/0x220 [<00000000c3837bf0>] bind_rdev_to_array+0x2af/0x630 [<0000000073c28560>] md_add_new_disk+0x400/0x9f0 [<00000000770e30ff>] md_ioctl+0x15bf/0x1c10 [<000000006cfab718>] blkdev_ioctl+0x191/0x3f0 [<0000000085086a11>] vfs_ioctl+0x22/0x60 [<0000000018b656fe>] __x64_sys_ioctl+0xba/0xe0 [<00000000e54e675e>] do_syscall_64+0x71/0x150 [<000000008b0ad622>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6c/0x74
Weakness: CWE-401
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-26900?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Linux kernel.
How do I fix CVE-2024-26900?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.
Is CVE-2024-26900 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-26900 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Linux kernel
Sources
Also known as AZL-40097, AZL-40162, BELL-CVE-2024-26900, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-26900, GHSA-2pj8-r2jf-53pj, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26900.