---
cve: "CVE-2024-44959"
severity: "HIGH"
cvss: 7.8
epss: "22%"
vendor: "Linux"
kev: false
exploited: false
published: "2024-09-04 19:15:30"
tags: [cve, security, high]
source: tsecurity.de CVE-Dossier
exported: "2026-09-18T19:22:24+02:00"
---

# CVE-2024-44959

> 7.8 HIGH

## Beschreibung

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

tracefs: Use generic inode RCU for synchronizing freeing

With structure layout randomization enabled for 'struct inode' we need to
avoid overlapping any of the RCU-used / initialized-only-once members,
e.g. i_lru or i_sb_list to not corrupt related list traversals when making
use of the rcu_head.

For an unlucky structure layout of 'struct inode' we may end up with the
following splat when running the ftrace selftests:

[] list_del corruption, ffff888103ee2cb0->next (tracefs_inode_cache+0x0/0x4e0 [slab object]) is NULL (prev is tracefs_inode_cache+0x78/0x4e0 [slab object])
[] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[] kernel BUG at lib/list_debug.c:54!
[] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
[] CPU: 3 PID: 2550 Comm: mount Tainted: G                 N  6.8.12-grsec+ #122 ed2f536ca62f28b087b90e3cc906a8d25b3ddc65
[] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.14.0-2 04/01/2014
[] RIP: 0010:[] __list_del_entry_valid_or_report+0x138/0x3e0
[] Code: 48 b8 99 fb 65 f2 ff ff ff ff e9 03 5c d9 fc cc 48 b8 99 fb 65 f2 ff ff ff ff e9 33 5a d9 fc cc 48 b8 99 fb 65 f2 ff ff ff ff  0b 4c 89 e9 48 89 ea 48 89 ee 48 c7 c7 60 8f dd 89 31 c0 e8 2f
[] RSP: 0018:fffffe80416afaf0 EFLAGS: 00010283
[] RAX: 0000000000000098 RBX: ffff888103ee2cb0 RCX: 0000000000000000
[] RDX: ffffffff84655fe8 RSI: ffffffff89dd8b60 RDI: 0000000000000001
[] RBP: ffff888103ee2cb0 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: fffffbd0082d5f25
[] R10: fffffe80416af92f R11: 0000000000000001 R12: fdf99c16731d9b6d
[] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff88819ad4b8b8 R15: 0000000000000000
[] RBX: tracefs_inode_cache+0x0/0x4e0 [slab object]
[] RDX: __list_del_entry_valid_or_report+0x108/0x3e0
[] RSI: __func__.47+0x4340/0x4400
[] RBP: tracefs_inode_cache+0x0/0x4e0 [slab object]
[] RSP: process kstack fffffe80416afaf0+0x7af0/0x8000 [mount 2550 2550]
[] R09: kasan shadow of process kstack fffffe80416af928+0x7928/0x8000 [mount 2550 2550]
[] R10: process kstack fffffe80416af92f+0x792f/0x8000 [mount 2550 2550]
[] R14: tracefs_inode_cache+0x78/0x4e0 [slab object]
[] FS:  00006dcb380c1840(0000) GS:ffff8881e0600000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[] CR2: 000076ab72b30e84 CR3: 000000000b088004 CR4: 0000000000360ef0 shadow CR4: 0000000000360ef0
[] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[] ASID: 0003
[] Stack:
[]  ffffffff818a2315 00000000f5c856ee ffffffff896f1840 ffff888103ee2cb0
[]  ffff88812b6b9750 0000000079d714b6 fffffbfff1e9280b ffffffff8f49405f
[]  0000000000000001 0000000000000000 ffff888104457280 ffffffff8248b392
[] Call Trace:
[]  
[]  [] ? lock_release+0x175/0x380 fffffe80416afaf0
[]  [] list_lru_del+0x152/0x740 fffffe80416afb48
[]  [] list_lru_del_obj+0x113/0x280 fffffe80416afb88
[]  [] ? _atomic_dec_and_lock+0x119/0x200 fffffe80416afb90
[]  [] iput_final+0x1c4/0x9a0 fffffe80416afbb8
[]  [] dentry_unlink_inode+0x44b/0xaa0 fffffe80416afbf8
[]  [] __dentry_kill+0x23c/0xf00 fffffe80416afc40
[]  [] ? __this_cpu_preempt_check+0x1f/0xa0 fffffe80416afc48
[]  [] ? shrink_dentry_list+0x1c5/0x760 fffffe80416afc70
[]  [] ? shrink_dentry_list+0x51/0x760 fffffe80416afc78
[]  [] shrink_dentry_list+0x288/0x760 fffffe80416afc80
[]  [] shrink_dcache_sb+0x155/0x420 fffffe80416afcc8
[]  [] ? debug_smp_processor_id+0x23/0xa0 fffffe80416afce0
[]  [] ? do_one_tre
---truncated---

## CVSS-Vektor

```
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
```

| Metrik | Wert | Bewertung |
|---|---|---|
| AV Angriffsvektor | Lokal | good |
| AC Komplexität | Gering | bad |
| PR Privilegien | Gering | warn |
| UI Interaktion | Keine | bad |
| S Scope | Unverändert | good |
| C Vertraulichkeit | Hoch | bad |
| I Integrität | Hoch | bad |
| A Verfügbarkeit | Hoch | bad |

## Patch verfügbar (OSV)

- Kernel ≥ 6.6.46
- Kernel ≥ 6.10.5

## Referenzen

- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/726f4c241e17be75a9cf6870d80cd7479dc89e8f>
- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/061da60716ce0cde99f62f31937b81e1c03acef6>
- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0b6743bd60a56a701070b89fb80c327a44b7b3e2>

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_Exportiert aus dem [tsecurity.de CVE-Dossier](https://tsecurity.de/cve?cve=CVE-2024-44959) · Datenquellen: EUVD (ENISA), NVD, OSV, CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, Exploit-DB, BSI BITS_