CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-50210

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2024-11-08 Modified 2026-10-15 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2024-11-08
Last modified
2026-10-15
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
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-667

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: posix-clock: posix-clock: Fix unbalanced locking in pc_clock_settime() If get_clock_desc() succeeds, it calls fget() for the clockid's fd, and get the clk->rwsem read lock, so the error path should release the lock to make the lock balance and fput the clockid's fd to make the refcount balance and release the fd related resource. However the below commit left the error path locked behind resulting in unbalanced locking. Check timespec64_valid_strict() before get_clock_desc() to fix it, because the "ts" is not changed after that. [[email protected]: fixed commit message typo]

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 5.10.228 < 5.11) • linux linux kernel 5.15.169 • linux linux kernel 6.1.114 • linux linux kernel 6.6.58 • linux linux kernel 6.11.5 • linux linux kernel 6.12

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-667 Improper Locking weakness

References