CVE-2024-38618

EPSS 0.04 % (14th)
0.04% Progress
Advisories 28
NVD Status Awaiting Analysis

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.

CVE Status
PUBLISHED
NVD Status
Awaiting Analysis
CNA
kernel.org
Published Date
2024-06-19 14:15:21
(2 months ago)
Updated Date
2024-07-15 07:15:13
(2 months ago)
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