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CVE-2024-38618

2024-06-2014:01:48
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cve-2024-38618
linux kernel
alsa timer
vulnerability
patch
rcu stall
fuzzer
hrtimer
start tick time
sanity check
error
hard-coded
100us

AI Score

6.9

Confidence

Low

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.