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

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-38576

2024-06-1914:15:00
Google
osv.dev
linux
kernel
vulnerability
buffer overflow
fix
ubuntu
cve-2024-38576
rcu
print_cpu_stall_info

AI Score

7.1

Confidence

Low

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rcu: Fix buffer overflow in print_cpu_stall_info() The rcuc-starvation output from print_cpu_stall_info() might overflow the buffer if there is a huge difference in jiffies difference. The situation might seem improbable, but computers sometimes get very confused about time, which can result in full-sized integers, and, in this case, buffer overflow. Also, the unsigned jiffies difference is printed using %ld, which is normally for signed integers. This is intentional for debugging purposes, but it is not obvious from the code. This commit therefore changes sprintf() to snprintf() and adds a clarifying comment about intention of %ld format. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.