CVE-2024-38618

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 ...

CVE-2024-38618

CVE-2024-38618 affects the Linux kernel: ALSA timer start tick time had no lower bound, enabling very small values (e.g., 1 tick at 1ns) that could trigger an unexpected RCU stall by repeatedly queuing expire updates. The connected docs describe the fix as a patch adding a sanity check for the ti...

CVE-2024-38618 ALSA: timer: Set lower bound of start tick time

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 ...