CVE-2024-36916
blk-iocost: avoid out of bounds shift
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 6.5 Medium
- Published
- May 30, 2024
- Updated
- Oct 15, 2026
- Reserved
- May 30, 2024
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
blk-iocost: avoid out of bounds shift
UBSAN catches undefined behavior in blk-iocost, where sometimes iocg->delay is shifted right by a number that is too large, resulting in undefined behavior on some architectures.
[ 186.556576] ------------[ cut here ]------------ UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in block/blk-iocost.c:1366:23 shift exponent 64 is too large for 64-bit type 'u64' (aka 'unsigned long long') CPU: 16 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/16 Tainted: G S E N 6.9.0-0_fbk700_debug_rc2_kbuilder_0_gc85af715cac0 #1 Hardware name: Quanta Twin Lakes MP/Twin Lakes Passive MP, BIOS F09_3A23 12/08/2020 Call Trace: <IRQ> dump_stack_lvl+0x8f/0xe0 __ubsan_handle_shift_out_of_bounds+0x22c/0x280 iocg_kick_delay+0x30b/0x310 ioc_timer_fn+0x2fb/0x1f80 __run_timer_base+0x1b6/0x250 ...
Avoid that undefined behavior by simply taking the "delay = 0" branch if the shift is too large.
I am not sure what the symptoms of an undefined value delay will be, but I suspect it could be more than a little annoying to debug.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 6.5 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L | CISA-ADP |
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
LinuxLinux |
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LinuxLinux |
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References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/62accf6c1d7b433752cb3591bba8967b7a801ad5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/844fc023e9f14a4fb1de5ae1eaefafd6d69c5fa1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f6add0a6f78dc6360b822ca4b6f9f2f14174c8ca
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ce0e99cae00e3131872936713b7f55eefd53ab86
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/488dc6808cb8369685f18cee81e88e7052ac153b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/beaa51b36012fad5a4d3c18b88a617aea7a9b96d
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00019.html
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240905-0006/
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-265688.html
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-613116.html
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