Bug 2445789 (CVE-2024-14027) - CVE-2024-14027 kernel: xattr: switch to CLASS(fd)
Summary: CVE-2024-14027 kernel: xattr: switch to CLASS(fd)
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2024-14027
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-03-09 17:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-03-09 19:16 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-03-09 17:01:33 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

fs/xattr: missing fdput() in fremovexattr error path

In the Linux kernel, the fremovexattr() syscall calls fdget() to acquire a
file reference but returns early without calling fdput() when
strncpy_from_user() fails on the name argument. In multi-threaded processes
where fdget() takes the slow path, this permanently leaks one
file reference per call, pinning the struct file and associated kernel
objects in memory. An unprivileged local user can exploit this to cause
kernel memory exhaustion. The issue was inadvertently fixed by commit
a71874379ec8 ("xattr: switch to CLASS(fd)").


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