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Siemens SIMATIC Devices Out-of-bounds Write (CVE-2024-36916)

🗓️ 27 Oct 2025 00:00:00Reported by TenableType 
nessus
 nessus
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CVE-2024-36916: Linux kernel fix for out-of-bounds shift in blk-iocost by forcing delay to zero.

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#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
##

include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(503597);
  script_version("1.2");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2025/10/29");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2024-36916");

  script_name(english:"Siemens SIMATIC Devices Out-of-bounds Write (CVE-2024-36916)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote OT asset is affected by a vulnerability.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
blk-iocost: avoid out of bounds shift UBSAN catches undefined behavior
in blk-iocost, where sometimes iocg->delay is shifted right by a
number that is too large, resulting in undefined behavior on some
architectures. [ 186.556576] ------------[ cut here ]------------
UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in block/blk-iocost.c:1366:23 shift
exponent 64 is too large for 64-bit type 'u64' (aka 'unsigned long
long') CPU: 16 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/16 Tainted: G S E N
6.9.0-0_fbk700_debug_rc2_kbuilder_0_gc85af715cac0 #1 Hardware name:
Quanta Twin Lakes MP/Twin Lakes Passive MP, BIOS F09_3A23 12/08/2020
Call Trace: <IRQ> dump_stack_lvl+0x8f/0xe0
__ubsan_handle_shift_out_of_bounds+0x22c/0x280
iocg_kick_delay+0x30b/0x310 ioc_timer_fn+0x2fb/0x1f80
__run_timer_base+0x1b6/0x250 ... Avoid that undefined behavior by
simply taking the delay = 0 branch if the shift is too large. I am
not sure what the symptoms of an undefined value delay will be, but I
suspect it could be more than a little annoying to debug.

This plugin only works with Tenable.ot.
Please visit https://www.tenable.com/products/tenable-ot for more information.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-265688.html");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Refer to the vendor advisory.");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2024-36916");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
  script_cwe_id(787);

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2024/04/09");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2024/04/09");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2025/10/27");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"remote");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:siemens:simatic_s7-1500_tm_mfp");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"former");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"Tenable.ot");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2025 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  script_dependencies("tenable_ot_api_integration.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Tenable.ot/Siemens");

  exit(0);
}


include('tenable_ot_cve_funcs.inc');

get_kb_item_or_exit('Tenable.ot/Siemens');

var asset = tenable_ot::assets::get(vendor:'Siemens');

var vuln_cpes = {
    "cpe:/o:siemens:simatic_s7-1500_tm_mfp" :
        {"versionEndIncluding" : "1.1", "versionStartIncluding" : "1.1", "family" : "S71500", "orderNumbers": ["6ES7558-1AA00-0AB0"]}
};

tenable_ot::cve::compare_and_report(asset:asset, cpes:vuln_cpes, severity:SECURITY_HOLE);

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29 Oct 2025 00:00Current
5.8Medium risk
Vulners AI Score5.8
CVSS 3.16.5 - 7.1
EPSS0.00733
SSVC
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