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nvd416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67NVD:CVE-2024-38618
HistoryJun 19, 2024 - 2:15 p.m.

CVE-2024-38618

2024-06-1914:15:21
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
web.nvd.nist.gov
linux kernel
alsa timer
vulnerability
tick time
fix

0.0004 Low

EPSS

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.

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

13.1%