rcu: Fix buffer overflow in print_cpu_stall_info()
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rcu: Fix buffer overflow in print_cpu_stall_info() The rcuc-starvation output from print_cpu_stall_info() might overflow the buffer if there is a huge difference in jiffies difference. The situation might seem improbable, but computers sometimes get very confused about time, which can result in full-sized integers, and, in this case, buffer overflow. Also, the unsigned jiffies difference is printed using %ld, which is normally for signed integers. This is intentional for debugging purposes, but it is not obvious from the code. This commit therefore changes sprintf() to snprintf() and adds a clarifying comment about intention of %ld format. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rcu: Fix buffer overflow in print_cpu_stall_info() The rcuc-starvation output from print_cpu_stall_info() might overflow the buffer if there is a huge difference in jiffies difference. The situation might seem improbable, but computers sometimes get very confused about time, which can result in full-sized integers, and, in this case, buffer overflow. Also, the unsigned jiffies difference is printed using %ld, which is normally for signed integers. This is intentional for debugging purposes, but it is not obvious from the code. This commit therefore changes sprintf() to snprintf() and adds a clarifying comment about intention of %ld format. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3758f7d9917bd7ef0482c4184c0ad673b4c4e069
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4c3e2ef4d8ddd313c8ce3ac30505940bea8d6257
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9351e1338539cb7f319ffc1210fa9b2aa27384b5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/afb39909bfb5c08111f99e21bf5be7505f59ff1c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e2228ed3fe7aa838fba87c79a76fb1ad9ea47138
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/38xxx/CVE-2024-38576.json
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-38576