Out-of-bounds Read Affecting kernel-tools-libs-devel package, versions *

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-tools-libs-devel package and not the kernel-tools-libs-devel package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-44931
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b955f786a4bcde8c0ccb2b7d519def2acb6f3cc
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d776c0486b03a5c4afca65b8ff44573592bf93bb
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d795848ecce24a75dfd46481aee066ae6fe39775
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/672c19165fc96dfad531a5458e0b3cdab414aae4
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9d682e89c44bd5819b01f3fbb45a8e3681a4b6d0
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c65ab97efcd438cb4e9f299400f2ea55251f3a67
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/18504710442671b02d00e6db9804a0ad26c5a479
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9ae2d8e75b741dbcb0da374753f972410e83b5f3