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CVE-2024-26840 is a memory leak in the Linux kernel CacheFiles subsystem involving cachefiles_add_cache(). References to the cache_cred credential object are not released during cachefiles_daemon_unbind() and on an error path in cachefiles_add_cache(), leaving allocated kernel memory unreclaimed. The issue was observed after unbinding the CacheFiles device.
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Referenced by the OpenShift Container Platform 4.17.30 security advisory without vulnerability-specific technical details.
A memory leak in the Linux kernel CacheFiles subsystem function cachefiles_add_cache().
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