Description

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

io_uring: check if iowq is killed before queuing

task work can be executed after the task has gone through io_uring
termination, whether it's the final task_work run or the fallback path.
In this case, task work will find ->io_wq being already killed and
null'ed, which is a problem if it then tries to forward the request to
io_queue_iowq(). Make io_queue_iowq() fail requests in this case.

Note that it also checks PF_KTHREAD, because the user can first close
a DEFER_TASKRUN ring and shortly after kill the task, in which case
->iowq check would race.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-56709

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.05% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 17.83% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-02-04 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/534d59ab38010aada88390db65985e65d0de7d9e
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2ca94c8de36091067b9ce7527ae8db3812d38781
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4f95a2186b7f2af09331e1e8069bcaf34fe019cf
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dbd2ca9367eb19bc5e269b8c58b0b1514ada9156

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