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🛡️ CVE-2024-50106 — kernel

🔴 CVSS 9.8 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit NVD
9.8
CVSS Score
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Description

nfsd: fix race between laundromat and free_stateid

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.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Affected software

CVE-2024-50106 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • kernel (from 6.9.0 up to 6.11.6)
  • linux-kernel

Timeline and source

Published on 5 November 2024 and last revised on 12 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
github.com (Advisory)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
git.kernel.org (Package)

Other advisories for this package

kernel has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Details

Severity Critical
CVSS Score 9.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-11-05
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-08-12

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
kernel 6.9.0 6.11.6
linux-kernel — —

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