# CVE-2024-41075: cachefiles: add consistency check for copen/cread

- Severity: CVSS 7.8 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-07-29 · Updated: 2026-08-05

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 5.19

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cachefiles: add consistency check for copen/cread This prevents malicious processes from completing random copen/cread requests and crashing the system. Added checks are listed below: * Generic, copen can only complete open requests, and cread can only complete read requests. * For copen, ondemand_id must not be 0, because this indicates that the request has not been read by the daemon. * For cread, the object corresponding to fd and req should be the same.

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## Related

- Browse: [Linux kernel](https://cve.now/tech/linux-kernel.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3b744884c0431b5a62c92900e64bfd0ed61e8e2a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/36d845ccd7bf527110a65fe953886a176c209539
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8aaa6c5dd2940ab934d6cd296175f43dbb32b34a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a26dc49df37e996876f50a0210039b2d211fdd6f

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