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CVE-2024-53218: f2fs: fix race in concurrent f2fs_stop_gc_thread

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 31/100)

  • The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.22% (FIRST EPSS).
  • Someone with local access to the system can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
  • Fixed version: Linux Linux 60457ed6c67625c87861f96912b4179dc2293896, 794fa8792d4eacac191f1cbcc2e81b7369e4662a, 7b0033dbc48340a1c1c3f12448ba17d6587ca092.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to Linux Linux 60457ed6c67625c87861f96912b4179dc2293896, 794fa8792d4eacac191f1cbcc2e81b7369e4662a, 7b0033dbc48340a1c1c3f12448ba17d6587ca092 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: f2fs: fix race in concurrent f2fs_stop_gc_thread In my test case, concurrent calls to f2fs shutdown report the following stack trace: Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xc6cfff63bb5513fc: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 678 Comm: f2fs_rep_shutdo Not tainted 6.12.0-rc5-next-20241029-g6fb2fa9805c5-dirty #85 Call Trace: <TASK> ? show_regs+0x8b/0xa0 ? __die_body+0x26/0xa0 ? die_addr+0x54/0x90 ? exc_general_protection+0x24b/0x5c0 ? asm_exc_general_protection+0x26/0x30 ? kthread_stop+0x46/0x390 f2fs_stop_gc_thread+0x6c/0x110 f2fs_do_shutdown+0x309/0x3a0 f2fs_ioc_shutdown+0x150/0x1c0 __f2fs_ioctl+0xffd/0x2ac0 f2fs_ioctl+0x76/0xe0 vfs_ioctl+0x23/0x60 __x64_sys_ioctl+0xce/0xf0 x64_sys_call+0x2b1b/0x4540 do_syscall_64+0xa7/0x240 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e The root cause is a race condition in f2fs_stop_gc_thread() called from different f2fs shutdown paths: [CPU0] [CPU1] ---------------------- ----------------------- f2fs_stop_gc_thread f2fs_stop_gc_thread gc_th = sbi->gc_thread gc_th = sbi->gc_thread kfree(gc_th) sbi->gc_thread = NULL < gc_th != NULL > kthread_stop(gc_th->f2fs_gc_task) //UAF The commit c7f114d864ac ("f2fs: fix to avoid use-after-free in f2fs_stop_gc_thread()") attempted to fix this issue by using a read semaphore to prevent races between shutdown and remount threads, but it fails to prevent all race conditions. Fix it by converting to write lock of s_umount in f2fs_do_shutdown().

HighCVSS 7.8 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available
Published
Dec 27, 2024
Updated
Jun 17, 2026
EPSS
0.2% · 12th percentile

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Low priority for now.

CVSS
31 / 40 · 7.8 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.2%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total

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Affected versions

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  • linux linux kernel4.16 and later · before 6.6.64
  • linux linux kernel6.7 and later · before 6.11.11
  • linux linux kernel6.12 and later · before 6.12.2

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (Linux). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

  • Linux Linux

    • 4.16affected
    • 7950e9ac638e84518fbdd5c930939ad46a1068c5 and later · before 794fa8792d4eacac191f1cbcc2e81b7369e4662aaffected · git
    • 7950e9ac638e84518fbdd5c930939ad46a1068c5 and later · before 60457ed6c67625c87861f96912b4179dc2293896affected · git
    • 7950e9ac638e84518fbdd5c930939ad46a1068c5 and later · before c631207897a9b3d41167ceca58e07f8f94720e42affected · git
    • 7950e9ac638e84518fbdd5c930939ad46a1068c5 and later · before 7b0033dbc48340a1c1c3f12448ba17d6587ca092affected · git
    • before 4.16not affected · semver
    • 6.6.64 and later · up to and including 6.6.*not affected · semver
    • 6.11.11 and later · up to and including 6.11.*not affected · semver
    • 6.12.2 and later · up to and including 6.12.*not affected · semver
    • 6.13 and laternot affected · original_commit_for_fix

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

EcosystemPackageAffected rangeFix
Debian:12linuxfrom 0—
Debian:13linuxbefore 6.12.3-16.12.3-1

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Published before and after this one in the same product

  • ← EarlierCVE-2024-53214Dec 27, 2024 · vfio/pci: Properly hide first-in-list PCIe extended capability
    31Monitor
  • ← EarlierCVE-2024-53215Dec 27, 2024 · svcrdma: fix miss destroy percpu_counter in svc_rdma_proc_init()
    22Monitor
  • Later →CVE-2024-53220Dec 27, 2024 · f2fs: fix to account dirty data in __get_secs_required()
    22Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

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Product / packageFixed versionSource
Linux Linux60457ed6c67625c87861f96912b4179dc2293896Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linux794fa8792d4eacac191f1cbcc2e81b7369e4662aVendor (CNA)
Linux Linux7b0033dbc48340a1c1c3f12448ba17d6587ca092Vendor (CNA)
Linux Linuxc631207897a9b3d41167ceca58e07f8f94720e42Vendor (CNA)
debian:linux6.12.3-1 · Debian:13Package registry (OSV)

Exploit status

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Timeline

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Variant candidates

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No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

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Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Someone with local access to the system can trigger it.
  • A low-privileged account is enough.
  • No user action is required.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
high · data can be read
Integrity
high · data or configuration can be modified
Availability
high · the service can be disrupted
Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality impact
High
Integrity impact
High
Availability impact
High

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-416 · Use After Free

CVSS vector

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

nvd-secondary

Root cause

After a memory region is freed, another reference pointing to it is still used. By then, the same region may have been allocated for different data.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-416 class

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Vulnerable

c
free(dev->buf);/* ... another thread is still running ... */process(dev->buf);

Fixed

c
lock(&dev->lock);free(dev->buf);dev->buf = NULL;unlock(&dev->lock);

Attack context

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Change log

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