CVE-2024-41075: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cachefiles: add consistency check for copen/cread This prevents malicious processes from completing random copen/cread requests and crashing the system. Added checks are listed below: * Generic, copen can only complete open requests, and cread can only complete read requests. * For copen, ondemand_id must not be 0, because this indicates that the request has not been read by the daemon. * For cread, the object corresponding to fd and req should be the same.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.19, before 6.1.101 (fixed in 6.1.101); from 6.2, before 6.6.42 (fixed in 6.6.42); from 6.7, before 6.9.11 (fixed in 6.9.11); version 6.10 only

Published 2024-07-29. Last modified 2026-08-04.