CVE-2024-50210

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 5.10.228-5.10.x - Denial of Service via Unbalanced Locking in posix-clock

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: posix-clock: posix-clock: Fix unbalanced locking in pc_clock_settime() If get_clock_desc() succeeds, it calls fget() for the clockid's fd, and get the clk->rwsem read lock, so the error path should release the lock to make the lock balance and fput the clockid's fd to make the refcount balance and release the fd related resource. However the below commit left the error path locked behind resulting in unbalanced locking. Check timespec64_valid_strict() before get_clock_desc() to fix it, because the "ts" is not changed after that. [[email protected]: fixed commit message typo]

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0017
EPSS Percentile 6.8%
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

CWE
CWE-667
Status published
Products (24)
linux/Kernel 5.10.228 - 5.10.229linux
linux/Kernel 5.15.169 - 5.15.170linux
linux/Kernel 6.1.114 - 6.1.115linux
linux/Kernel 6.11.5 - 6.11.6linux
linux/Kernel 6.6.58 - 6.6.59linux
Linux/Linux 1ff7247101af723731ea42ed565d54fb8f341264 - b27330128eca25179637c1816d5a72d6cc408c66
Linux/Linux 27abbde44b6e71ee3891de13e1a228aa7ce95bfe - 5f063bbf1ee6b01611c016b54e050a41506eb794
Linux/Linux 29f085345cde24566efb751f39e5d367c381c584 - d005400262ddaf1ca1666bbcd1acf42fe81d57ce
Linux/Linux 5.10.228 - 5.10.229
Linux/Linux 5.15.169 - 5.15.170
... and 14 more
Published Nov 08, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026