{"id":68976,"date":"2025-08-28T16:31:29","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T13:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2024-58240-linux-kernel-tls-use-after-free-uaf\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T16:31:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T13:01:29","slug":"cve-2024-58240-linux-kernel-tls-use-after-free-uaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2024-58240-linux-kernel-tls-use-after-free-uaf\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2024-58240 &#8211; Linux Kernel TLS Use-After-Free (UAF)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CVE ID : <\/strong>CVE-2024-58240<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Published : <\/strong> Aug. 28, 2025, 11:16 a.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 27\u00a0minutes ago<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Description : <\/strong>In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<\/p>\n<p>tls: separate no-async decryption request handling from async<\/p>\n<p>If we&#8217;re not doing async, the handling is much simpler. There&#8217;s no<br \/>\nreference counting, we just need to wait for the completion to wake us<br \/>\nup and return its result.<\/p>\n<p>We should preferably also use a separate crypto_wait. I&#8217;m not seeing a<br \/>\nUAF as I did in the past, I think aec7961916f3 (&#8220;tls: fix race between<br \/>\nasync notify and socket close&#8221;) took care of it.<\/p>\n<p>This will make the next fix easier.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Severity:<\/strong> 0.0 | NA<br \/>\n<br \/>\nVisit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2024-58240 Published : Aug. 28, 2025, 11:16 a.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 27\u00a0minutes ago Description : In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tls: separate no-async decryption request handling from async If we&#8217;re not doing async, the handling is much simpler. There&#8217;s no reference counting, we just need to wait for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}