Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: timer: Set lower bound of start tick time Currently ALSA timer doesn't have the lower limit of the start tick time, and it allows a very small size, e.g. 1 tick with 1ns resolution for hrtimer. Such a situation may lead to an unexpected RCU stall, where the callback repeatedly queuing the expire update, as reported by fuzzer. This patch introduces a sanity check of the timer start tick time, so that the system returns an error when a too small start size is set. As of this patch, the lower limit is hard-coded to 100us, which is small enough but can still work somehow.
References (9)
Core 9
Core References
Scores
CVSS v3
5.5
EPSS
0.0065
EPSS Percentile
47.3%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
partial
Details
Status
published
Products (26)
linux/Kernel
2.6.29 - 4.19.316linux
linux/Kernel
4.20.0 - 5.4.278linux
linux/Kernel
5.11.0 - 5.15.161linux
linux/Kernel
5.16.0 - 6.1.93linux
linux/Kernel
5.5.0 - 5.10.219linux
linux/Kernel
6.2.0 - 6.6.33linux
linux/Kernel
6.7.0 - 6.9.3linux
Linux/Linux
< 2.6.29
Linux/Linux
2.6.29
Linux/Linux
4.19.316 - 4.19.*
... and 16 more
Published
Jun 19, 2024
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026