CVE-2024-26686 Affecting kernel-debug-debuginfo package, versions <0:4.18.0-553.16.1.el8_10


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Rocky Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ROCKY8-KERNELDEBUGDEBUGINFO-7783423
  • published22 Aug 2024
  • disclosed3 Apr 2024

Introduced: 3 Apr 2024

CVE-2024-26686  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Rocky-Linux:8 kernel-debug-debuginfo to version 0:4.18.0-553.16.1.el8_10 or higher.
This issue was patched in RLSA-2024:5101.

NVD Description

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

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

fs/proc: do_task_stat: use sig->stats_lock to gather the threads/children stats

lock_task_sighand() can trigger a hard lockup. If NR_CPUS threads call do_task_stat() at the same time and the process has NR_THREADS, it will spin with irqs disabled O(NR_CPUS * NR_THREADS) time.

Change do_task_stat() to use sig->stats_lock to gather the statistics outside of ->siglock protected section, in the likely case this code will run lockless.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1