Linux Kernel up to 6.11.5 nfsd list_del_init use after free

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A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel up to 6.11.5. It has been classified as critical. This affects the function list_del_init of the component nfsd. Performing a manipulation results in use after free. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2024-50106. No exploit exists. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Linux Kernel up to 6.11.5. This affects the function list_del_init of the component nfsd. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a use after free vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-416. Referencing memory after it has been freed can cause a program to crash, use unexpected values, or execute code. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nfsd: fix race between laundromat and free_stateid There is a race between laundromat handling of revoked delegations and a client sending free_stateid operation. Laundromat thread finds that delegation has expired and needs to be revoked so it marks the delegation stid revoked and it puts it on a reaper list but then it unlock the state lock and the actual delegation revocation happens without the lock. Once the stid is marked revoked a racing free_stateid processing thread does the following (1) it calls list_del_init() which removes it from the reaper list and (2) frees the delegation stid structure. The laundromat thread ends up not calling the revoke_delegation() function for this particular delegation but that means it will no release the lock lease that exists on the file. Now, a new open for this file comes in and ends up finding that lease list isn't empty and calls nfsd_breaker_owns_lease() which ends up trying to derefence a freed delegation stateid. Leading to the followint use-after-free KASAN warning: kernel: ================================================================== kernel: BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in nfsd_breaker_owns_lease+0x140/0x160 [nfsd] kernel: Read of size 8 at addr ffff0000e73cd0c8 by task nfsd/6205 kernel: kernel: CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 6205 Comm: nfsd Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.11.0-rc7+ #9 kernel: Hardware name: Apple Inc. Apple Virtualization Generic Platform, BIOS 2069.0.0.0.0 08/03/2024 kernel: Call trace: kernel: dump_backtrace+0x98/0x120 kernel: show_stack+0x1c/0x30 kernel: dump_stack_lvl+0x80/0xe8 kernel: print_address_description.constprop.0+0x84/0x390 kernel: print_report+0xa4/0x268 kernel: kasan_report+0xb4/0xf8 kernel: __asan_report_load8_noabort+0x1c/0x28 kernel: nfsd_breaker_owns_lease+0x140/0x160 [nfsd] kernel: nfsd_file_do_acquire+0xb3c/0x11d0 [nfsd] kernel: nfsd_file_acquire_opened+0x84/0x110 [nfsd] kernel: nfs4_get_vfs_file+0x634/0x958 [nfsd] kernel: nfsd4_process_open2+0xa40/0x1a40 [nfsd] kernel: nfsd4_open+0xa08/0xe80 [nfsd] kernel: nfsd4_proc_compound+0xb8c/0x2130 [nfsd] kernel: nfsd_dispatch+0x22c/0x718 [nfsd] kernel: svc_process_common+0x8e8/0x1960 [sunrpc] kernel: svc_process+0x3d4/0x7e0 [sunrpc] kernel: svc_handle_xprt+0x828/0xe10 [sunrpc] kernel: svc_recv+0x2cc/0x6a8 [sunrpc] kernel: nfsd+0x270/0x400 [nfsd] kernel: kthread+0x288/0x310 kernel: ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 This patch proposes a fixed that's based on adding 2 new additional stid's sc_status values that help coordinate between the laundromat and other operations (nfsd4_free_stateid() and nfsd4_delegreturn()). First to make sure, that once the stid is marked revoked, it is not removed by the nfsd4_free_stateid(), the laundromat take a reference on the stateid. Then, coordinating whether the stid has been put on the cl_revoked list or we are processing FREE_STATEID and need to make sure to remove it from the list, each check that state and act accordingly. If laundromat has added to the cl_revoke list before the arrival of FREE_STATEID, then nfsd4_free_stateid() knows to remove it from the list. If nfsd4_free_stateid() finds that operations arrived before laundromat has placed it on cl_revoke list, it marks the state freed and then laundromat will no longer add it to the list. Also, for nfsd4_delegreturn() when looking for the specified stid, we need to access stid that are marked removed or freeable, it means the laundromat has started processing it but hasn't finished and this delegreturn needs to return nfserr_deleg_revoked and not nfserr_bad_stateid. The latter will not trigger a FREE_STATEID and the lack of it will leave this stid on the cl_revoked list indefinitely.

The advisory is shared at git.kernel.org. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-50106 since 10/21/2024. The exploitability is told to be difficult. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 07/17/2025).

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 216493 (Ubuntu 24.10 : Linux kernel vulnerabilities (USN-7276-1)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 6.11.6 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 967faa26f313/8dd91e8d31fe is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at git.kernel.org. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (216493) and CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2024-3339). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

Affected

• Google Container-Optimized OS
• Debian Linux
• Amazon Linux 2
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Ubuntu Linux
• SUSE Linux
• Oracle Linux
• Open Source eCryptfs
• SUSE openSUSE
• RESF Rocky Linux
• IBM QRadar SIEM

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• Operating System

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• Linux

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• Kernel

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• 6.11.0
• 6.11.1
• 6.11.2
• 6.11.3
• 6.11.4
• 6.11.5

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• open-source

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• Vendor: https://www.kernel.org/

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