Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting kernel-tools package, versions *

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-tools package and not the kernel-tools package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

tracing: Fix overflow in get_free_elt()

"tracing_map->next_elt" in get_free_elt() is at risk of overflowing.

Once it overflows, new elements can still be inserted into the tracing_map even though the maximum number of elements (max_elts) has been reached. Continuing to insert elements after the overflow could result in the tracing_map containing "tracing_map->max_size" elements, leaving no empty entries. If any attempt is made to insert an element into a full tracing_map using __tracing_map_insert(), it will cause an infinite loop with preemption disabled, leading to a CPU hang problem.

Fix this by preventing any further increments to "tracing_map->next_elt" once it reaches "tracing_map->max_elt".

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-43890
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/236bb4690773ab6869b40bedc7bc8d889e36f9d6
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/302ceb625d7b990db205a15e371f9a71238de91c
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/788ea62499b3c18541fd6d621964d8fafbc4aec5
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a172c7b22bc2feaf489cfc6d6865f7237134fdf8
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bcf86c01ca4676316557dd482c8416ece8c2e143
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cd10d186a5409a1fe6e976df82858e9773a698da
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d3e4dbc2858fe85d1dbd2e72a9fc5dea988b5c18
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eb223bf01e688dfe37e813c8988ee11c8c9f8d0a