UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50195
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.
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
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03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
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.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://git.kernel.org/linus/d8794ac20a299b647ba9958f6d657051fc51a540
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1ff7247101af723731ea42ed565d54fb8f341264
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/27abbde44b6e71ee3891de13e1a228aa7ce95bfe
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/29f085345cde24566efb751f39e5d367c381c584
- 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/e0c966bd3e31911b57ef76cec4c5796ebd88e512
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-50195
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7276-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7277-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7288-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7288-2
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7289-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7289-2
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7289-3
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7289-4
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7291-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7293-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7294-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7294-2
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7294-3
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7294-4
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7295-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7305-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7308-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7310-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7331-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7383-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7383-2
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7384-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7384-2
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7385-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7386-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7388-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7389-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7390-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7393-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7401-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7403-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7413-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7451-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7458-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7468-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7523-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7524-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7539-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7540-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7987-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7987-2
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7988-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7988-2
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7988-3
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7988-4
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7988-5
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-50195