CVE-2024-50210CWE-667

CVE-2024-50210

Medium · published November 8, 2024

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
6.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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]

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00170 · 6.1th percentile
Weakness
CWE-667 · Improper Locking
Published
2024-11-08T11:15Z
Affected products (6)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.10.228, < 5.115.11
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References (11)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 08 NOV 06:08Z
    posix-clock: posix-clock: Fix unbalanced locking in pc_clock_settime()
    cvelistv5