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HistoryJun 19, 2024 - 2:15 p.m.

CVE-2024-38618

2024-06-1914:15:21
Debian Security Bug Tracker
security-tracker.debian.org
5
alsa
timer
start tick time
lower bound
unix
cve-2024-38618

AI Score

7

Confidence

High

EPSS

0

Percentile

13.1%

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.

AI Score

7

Confidence

High

EPSS

0

Percentile

13.1%