CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-44931
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-08-26
- 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:H/I:N/A:N
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
gpio: prevent potential speculation leaks in gpio_device_get_desc()
Userspace may trigger a speculative read of an address outside the gpio
descriptor array.
Users can do that by calling gpio_ioctl() with an offset out of range.
Offset is copied from user and then used as an array index to get
the gpio descriptor without sanitization in gpio_device_get_desc().
This change ensures that the offset is sanitized by using
array_index_nospec() to mitigate any possibility of speculative
information leaks.
This bug was discovered and resolved using Coverity Static Analysis
Security Testing (SAST) by Synopsys, Inc.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 6.6.46)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.10.5)
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/18504710442671b02d00e6db9804a0ad26c5a479 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b955f786a4bcde8c0ccb2b7d519def2acb6f3cc Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/672c19165fc96dfad531a5458e0b3cdab414aae4 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9ae2d8e75b741dbcb0da374753f972410e83b5f3 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9d682e89c44bd5819b01f3fbb45a8e3681a4b6d0 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c65ab97efcd438cb4e9f299400f2ea55251f3a67 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d776c0486b03a5c4afca65b8ff44573592bf93bb Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d795848ecce24a75dfd46481aee066ae6fe39775 Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00001.html lists.debian.org
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00002.html lists.debian.org