CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-50195
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-11-08
- Last modified
- 2026-08-04
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
- 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
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-754
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
posix-clock: Fix missing timespec64 check in pc_clock_settime()
As Andrew pointed out, it will make sense that the PTP core
checked timespec64 struct's tv_sec and tv_nsec range before calling
ptp->info->settime64().
As the man manual of clock_settime() said, if tp.tv_sec is negative or
tp.tv_nsec is outside the range [0..999,999,999], it should return EINVAL,
which include dynamic clocks which handles PTP clock, and the condition is
consistent with timespec64_valid(). As Thomas suggested, timespec64_valid()
only check the timespec is valid, but not ensure that the time is
in a valid range, so check it ahead using timespec64_valid_strict()
in pc_clock_settime() and return -EINVAL if not valid.
There are some drivers that use tp->tv_sec and tp->tv_nsec directly to
write registers without validity checks and assume that the higher layer
has checked it, which is dangerous and will benefit from this, such as
hclge_ptp_settime(), igb_ptp_settime_i210(), _rcar_gen4_ptp_settime(),
and some drivers can remove the checks of itself.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 2.6.39 < 4.19.323)
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.4.285)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.228)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.169)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.114)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.58)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.11.5)
• linux linux kernel 6.12
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-754 Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1ff7247101af723731ea42ed565d54fb8f341264 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/27abbde44b6e71ee3891de13e1a228aa7ce95bfe Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/29f085345cde24566efb751f39e5d367c381c584 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/673a1c5a2998acbd429d6286e6cad10f17f4f073 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a3f169e398215e71361774d13bf91a0101283ac2 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c8789fbe2bbf75845e45302cba6ffa44e1884d01 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d8794ac20a299b647ba9958f6d657051fc51a540 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e0c966bd3e31911b57ef76cec4c5796ebd88e512 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