Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Affecting kernel-bootwrapper package, versions *
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL7-KERNELBOOTWRAPPER-7912038
- published 5 Sep 2024
- disclosed 4 Sep 2024
Introduced: 4 Sep 2024
CVE-2024-44968 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 kernel-bootwrapper.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-bootwrapper package and not the kernel-bootwrapper package as distributed by RHEL.
See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tick/broadcast: Move per CPU pointer access into the atomic section
The recent fix for making the take over of the broadcast timer more reliable retrieves a per CPU pointer in preemptible context.
This went unnoticed as compilers hoist the access into the non-preemptible region where the pointer is actually used. But of course it's valid that the compiler keeps it at the place where the code puts it which rightfully triggers:
BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: caller is hotplug_cpu__broadcast_tick_pull+0x1c/0xc0
Move it to the actual usage site which is in a non-preemptible region.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-44968
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/541a900d245536d4809cb1aa322c3fcc2cdb58a6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/668c6c4a7e9e9f081c06b70f30104fb7013437ed
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6881e75237a84093d0986f56223db3724619f26e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7b3ec186ba93e333e9efe7254e7e31c1828e5d2d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7dd12f85f150010ef7518201c63fa7e395f5c3e9
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b9d604933d5fd72dd37f24e1dc35f778297d745a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f54abf332a2bc0413cfa8bd6a8511f7aa99faea0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f91fb47ecacc178a83a77eeebd25cbaec18c01d6