Security Advisory

CVE-2024-40909

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2024-07-12 12:20:48
Last updated 2026-05-23 15:50:39
Assigner Linux
State PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Fix a potential use-after-free in bpf_link_free() After commit 1a80dbcb2dba, bpf_link can be freed by link->ops->dealloc_deferred, but the code still tests and uses link->ops->dealloc afterward, which leads to a use-after-free as reported by syzbot. Actually, one of them should be sufficient, so just call one of them instead of both. Also add a WARN_ON() in case of any problematic implementation.