CVE-2024-50195 Affecting kernel-cross-headers package, versions *
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL8-KERNELCROSSHEADERS-8405208
- published 26 Nov 2024
- disclosed 8 Nov 2024
How to fix?
There is no fixed version for RHEL:8 kernel-cross-headers.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-cross-headers package and not the kernel-cross-headers package as distributed by RHEL.
See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
posix-clock: Fix missing timespec64 check in pc_clock_settime()
As Andrew pointed out, it will make sense that the PTP core checked timespec64 struct's tv_sec and tv_nsec range before calling ptp->info->settime64().
As the man manual of clock_settime() said, if tp.tv_sec is negative or tp.tv_nsec is outside the range [0..999,999,999], it should return EINVAL, which include dynamic clocks which handles PTP clock, and the condition is consistent with timespec64_valid(). As Thomas suggested, timespec64_valid() only check the timespec is valid, but not ensure that the time is in a valid range, so check it ahead using timespec64_valid_strict() in pc_clock_settime() and return -EINVAL if not valid.
There are some drivers that use tp->tv_sec and tp->tv_nsec directly to write registers without validity checks and assume that the higher layer has checked it, which is dangerous and will benefit from this, such as hclge_ptp_settime(), igb_ptp_settime_i210(), _rcar_gen4_ptp_settime(), and some drivers can remove the checks of itself.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-50195
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1ff7247101af723731ea42ed565d54fb8f341264
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/27abbde44b6e71ee3891de13e1a228aa7ce95bfe
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/673a1c5a2998acbd429d6286e6cad10f17f4f073
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a3f169e398215e71361774d13bf91a0101283ac2
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c8789fbe2bbf75845e45302cba6ffa44e1884d01
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d8794ac20a299b647ba9958f6d657051fc51a540
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/29f085345cde24566efb751f39e5d367c381c584
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e0c966bd3e31911b57ef76cec4c5796ebd88e512