CVE-2024-35985

EPSS 0.04 % (16th)
0.04% Progress
Advisories 4
NVD Status Awaiting Analysis

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.

CVE Status
PUBLISHED
NVD Status
Awaiting Analysis
CNA
kernel.org
Published Date
2024-05-20 10:15:12
(3 months ago)
Updated Date
2024-05-20 13:00:04
(3 months ago)
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