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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-KERNEL-6319557
- published29 Feb 2024
- disclosed27 Feb 2024
Introduced: 27 Feb 2024
CVE-2020-36776 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:7.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel package and not the kernel package as distributed by RHEL.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
thermal/drivers/cpufreq_cooling: Fix slab OOB issue
Slab OOB issue is scanned by KASAN in cpu_power_to_freq(). If power is limited below the power of OPP0 in EM table, it will cause slab out-of-bound issue with negative array index.
Return the lowest frequency if limited power cannot found a suitable OPP in EM table to fix this issue.
Backtrace: [<ffffffd02d2a37f0>] die+0x104/0x5ac [<ffffffd02d2a5630>] bug_handler+0x64/0xd0 [<ffffffd02d288ce4>] brk_handler+0x160/0x258 [<ffffffd02d281e5c>] do_debug_exception+0x248/0x3f0 [<ffffffd02d284488>] el1_dbg+0x14/0xbc [<ffffffd02d75d1d4>] __kasan_report+0x1dc/0x1e0 [<ffffffd02d75c2e0>] kasan_report+0x10/0x20 [<ffffffd02d75def8>] __asan_report_load8_noabort+0x18/0x28 [<ffffffd02e6fce5c>] cpufreq_power2state+0x180/0x43c [<ffffffd02e6ead80>] power_actor_set_power+0x114/0x1d4 [<ffffffd02e6fac24>] allocate_power+0xaec/0xde0 [<ffffffd02e6f9f80>] power_allocator_throttle+0x3ec/0x5a4 [<ffffffd02e6ea888>] handle_thermal_trip+0x160/0x294 [<ffffffd02e6edd08>] thermal_zone_device_check+0xe4/0x154 [<ffffffd02d351cb4>] process_one_work+0x5e4/0xe28 [<ffffffd02d352f44>] worker_thread+0xa4c/0xfac [<ffffffd02d360124>] kthread+0x33c/0x358 [<ffffffd02d289940>] ret_from_fork+0xc/0x18
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-36776
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/34ab17cc6c2c1ac93d7e5d53bb972df9a968f085
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6bf443acf6ca4f666d0e4225614ba9993a3aa1a9
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/876a5f33e5d961d879c5436987c09b3d9ef70379
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c24a20912eef00587416628149c438e885eb1304