CVE-2024-50195
Published: Nov 8, 2024
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: posix-clock: Fix missing timespec64 check in pc_clock_settime() As Andrew pointed out, it will make sense that the PTP core checked timespec64 struct's tv_sec and tv_nsec range before calling ptp->info->settime64(). As the man manual of clock_settime() said, if tp.tv_sec is negative or tp.tv_nsec is outside the range [0..999,999,999], it should return EINVAL, which include dynamic clocks which handles PTP clock, and the condition is consistent with timespec64_valid(). As Thomas suggested, timespec64_valid() only check the timespec is valid, but not ensure that the time is in a valid range, so check it ahead using timespec64_valid_strict() in pc_clock_settime() and return -EINVAL if not valid. There are some drivers that use tp->tv_sec and tp->tv_nsec directly to write registers without validity checks and assume that the higher layer has checked it, which is dangerous and will benefit from this, such as hclge_ptp_settime(), igb_ptp_settime_i210(), _rcar_gen4_ptp_settime(), and some drivers can remove the checks of itself.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 0606f422b453f76c31ab2b1bd52943ff06a2dcf2 - < 29f085345cde24566efb751f39e5d367c381c584affected 0606f422b453f76c31ab2b1bd52943ff06a2dcf2 - < e0c966bd3e31911b57ef76cec4c5796ebd88e512affected 0606f422b453f76c31ab2b1bd52943ff06a2dcf2 - < 673a1c5a2998acbd429d6286e6cad10f17f4f073affected 0606f422b453f76c31ab2b1bd52943ff06a2dcf2 - < c8789fbe2bbf75845e45302cba6ffa44e1884d01affected 0606f422b453f76c31ab2b1bd52943ff06a2dcf2 - < 27abbde44b6e71ee3891de13e1a228aa7ce95bfe+3 more versions |
Linux | Linux | affected 2.6.39unaffected 0 - < 2.6.39unaffected 4.19.323 - <= 4.19.*unaffected 5.4.285 - <= 5.4.*unaffected 5.10.228 - <= 5.10.*+5 more versions |
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