CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-46940

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2024-02-27 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2024-02-27
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-190

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tools/power turbostat: Fix offset overflow issue in index converting The idx_to_offset() function returns type int (32-bit signed), but MSR_PKG_ENERGY_STAT is u32 and would be interpreted as a negative number. The end result is that it hits the if (offset < 0) check in update_msr_sum() which prevents the timer callback from updating the stat in the background when long durations are used. The similar issue exists in offset_to_idx() and update_msr_sum(). Fix this issue by converting the 'int' to 'off_t' accordingly.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 5.10.0 < 5.10.36) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11.0 < 5.11.20) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.12.0 < 5.12.3)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound weakness

References