CVE-2024-57953

rtc: tps6594: Fix integer overflow on 32bit systems

Medium · published February 27, 2025

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
12.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

rtc: tps6594: Fix integer overflow on 32bit systems

The problem is this multiply in tps6594_rtc_set_offset()

tmp = offset * TICKS_PER_HOUR;

The "tmp" variable is an s64 but "offset" is a long in the

(-277774)-277774 range. On 32bit systems a long can hold numbers up to

approximately two billion. The number of TICKS_PER_HOUR is really large,

(32768 * 3600) or roughly a hundred million. When you start multiplying

by a hundred million it doesn't take long to overflow the two billion

mark.

Probably the safest way to fix this is to change the type of

TICKS_PER_HOUR to long long because it's such a large number.

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
0.00225 · 12.5th percentile
Published
2025-02-27T02:07Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 27 FEB 02:07Z
    rtc: tps6594: Fix integer overflow on 32bit systems
    cvelistv5