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nvd416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67NVD:CVE-2024-35985
HistoryMay 20, 2024 - 10:15 a.m.

CVE-2024-35985

2024-05-2010:15:12
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
web.nvd.nist.gov
linux kernel
cve-2024-35985
vulnerability fix
sched/eevdf
vlag
reweight_eevdf
entity_eligible
vruntime
multiplication overflow

6.4 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

15.6%

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

sched/eevdf: Prevent vlag from going out of bounds in reweight_eevdf()

It was possible to have pick_eevdf() return NULL, which then causes a
NULL-deref. This turned out to be due to entity_eligible() returning
falsely negative because of a s64 multiplcation overflow.

Specifically, reweight_eevdf() computes the vlag without considering
the limit placed upon vlag as update_entity_lag() does, and then the
scaling multiplication (remember that weight is 20bit fixed point) can
overflow. This then leads to the new vruntime being weird which then
causes the above entity_eligible() to go side-ways and claim nothing
is eligible.

Thus limit the range of vlag accordingly.

All this was quite rare, but fatal when it does happen.

6.4 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

15.6%

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