CVE-2024-38576
Published: Jun 19, 2024
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rcu: Fix buffer overflow in print_cpu_stall_info() The rcuc-starvation output from print_cpu_stall_info() might overflow the buffer if there is a huge difference in jiffies difference. The situation might seem improbable, but computers sometimes get very confused about time, which can result in full-sized integers, and, in this case, buffer overflow. Also, the unsigned jiffies difference is printed using %ld, which is normally for signed integers. This is intentional for debugging purposes, but it is not obvious from the code. This commit therefore changes sprintf() to snprintf() and adds a clarifying comment about intention of %ld format. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 245a62982502255314b63dd2c4daaedd1cd595a6 - < e2228ed3fe7aa838fba87c79a76fb1ad9ea47138affected 245a62982502255314b63dd2c4daaedd1cd595a6 - < afb39909bfb5c08111f99e21bf5be7505f59ff1caffected 245a62982502255314b63dd2c4daaedd1cd595a6 - < 9351e1338539cb7f319ffc1210fa9b2aa27384b5affected 245a62982502255314b63dd2c4daaedd1cd595a6 - < 4c3e2ef4d8ddd313c8ce3ac30505940bea8d6257affected 245a62982502255314b63dd2c4daaedd1cd595a6 - < 3758f7d9917bd7ef0482c4184c0ad673b4c4e069 |
Linux | Linux | affected 6.0unaffected 0 - < 6.0unaffected 6.1.93 - <= 6.1.*unaffected 6.6.33 - <= 6.6.*unaffected 6.8.12 - <= 6.8.*+2 more versions |
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