CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-38576
7.0 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-06-19
- Last modified
- 2026-08-04
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.0 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 7.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-120
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
rcu: Fix buffer overflow in print_cpu_stall_info()
The rcuc-starvation output from print_cpu_stall_info() might overflow the
buffer if there is a huge difference in jiffies difference. The situation
might seem improbable, but computers sometimes get very confused about
time, which can result in full-sized integers, and, in this case,
buffer overflow.
Also, the unsigned jiffies difference is printed using %ld, which is
normally for signed integers. This is intentional for debugging purposes,
but it is not obvious from the code.
This commit therefore changes sprintf() to snprintf() and adds a
clarifying comment about intention of %ld format.
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.0 < 6.1.93)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.33)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.8.12)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.9 < 6.9.3)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3758f7d9917bd7ef0482c4184c0ad673b4c4e069 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4c3e2ef4d8ddd313c8ce3ac30505940bea8d6257 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9351e1338539cb7f319ffc1210fa9b2aa27384b5 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/afb39909bfb5c08111f99e21bf5be7505f59ff1c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e2228ed3fe7aa838fba87c79a76fb1ad9ea47138 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3758f7d9917bd7ef0482c4184c0ad673b4c4e069 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4c3e2ef4d8ddd313c8ce3ac30505940bea8d6257 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9351e1338539cb7f319ffc1210fa9b2aa27384b5 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/afb39909bfb5c08111f99e21bf5be7505f59ff1c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e2228ed3fe7aa838fba87c79a76fb1ad9ea47138 Patch