CVE-2024-38618

2024-06-1914:15:21

416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

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linux kernel

alsa

timer

vulnerability

resolution

start tick time

lower limit

rcu stall

patch

sanity check

hard-coded

100us

6.5 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

13.1%

JSON

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

ALSA: timer: Set lower bound of start tick time

Currently ALSA timer doesn’t have the lower limit of the start tick
time, and it allows a very small size, e.g. 1 tick with 1ns resolution
for hrtimer. Such a situation may lead to an unexpected RCU stall,
where the callback repeatedly queuing the expire update, as reported
by fuzzer.

This patch introduces a sanity check of the timer start tick time, so
that the system returns an error when a too small start size is set.
As of this patch, the lower limit is hard-coded to 100us, which is
small enough but can still work somehow.

Affected configurations

Vulners

Node

linuxlinux_kernelRange4.19.0–4.19.316

linuxlinux_kernelRange4.20.0–5.4.278

linuxlinux_kernelRange5.5.0–5.10.219

linuxlinux_kernelRange5.11.0–5.15.161

linuxlinux_kernelRange5.16.0–6.1.93

linuxlinux_kernelRange6.2.0–6.6.33

linuxlinux_kernelRange6.7.0–6.9.3

linuxlinux_kernelRange6.10.0–6.10-rc1

CNA Affected

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    "vendor": "Linux",
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
    "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
    "programFiles": [
      "sound/core/timer.c"
    ],
    "versions": [
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        "version": "1da177e4c3f4",
        "lessThan": "68396c825c43",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      },
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        "version": "1da177e4c3f4",
        "lessThan": "74bfb8d90f26",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
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        "version": "1da177e4c3f4",
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        "status": "affected",
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    "programFiles": [
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    ],
    "versions": [
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        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "5.4.278",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "5.4.*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
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        "version": "5.10.219",
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        "status": "unaffected",
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        "version": "5.15.161",
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        "status": "unaffected",
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      },
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        "version": "6.1.93",
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        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "6.6.33",
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        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "6.9.3",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "6.9.*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "6.10-rc1",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix"
      }
    ]
  }
]