ghsa-2hfc-xmh6-q9f9
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Published
2024-06-19 15:30
Modified
2024-06-27 12:30
Details

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

ALSA: timer: Set lower bound of start tick time

Currently ALSA timer doesn't have the lower limit of the start tick time, and it allows a very small size, e.g. 1 tick with 1ns resolution for hrtimer. Such a situation may lead to an unexpected RCU stall, where the callback repeatedly queuing the expire update, as reported by fuzzer.

This patch introduces a sanity check of the timer start tick time, so that the system returns an error when a too small start size is set. As of this patch, the lower limit is hard-coded to 100us, which is small enough but can still work somehow.

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  "aliases": [
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  "id": "GHSA-2hfc-xmh6-q9f9",
  "modified": "2024-06-27T12:30:48Z",
  "published": "2024-06-19T15:30:54Z",
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