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CVE-2024-36961
published 2024-06-03

CVE-2024-36961: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: thermal/debugfs: Fix two locking issues with thermal zone debug With the current thermal…

PriorityP420medium5.5CVSS 3.1
AVLACLPRLUINSUCNINAH
EPSS
0.15%
4.7th percentile
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: thermal/debugfs: Fix two locking issues with thermal zone debug With the current thermal zone locking arrangement in the debugfs code, user space can open the "mitigations" file for a thermal zone before the zone's debugfs pointer is set which will result in a NULL pointer dereference in tze_seq_start(). Moreover, thermal_debug_tz_remove() is not called under the thermal zone lock, so it can run in parallel with the other functions accessing the thermal zone's struct thermal_debugfs object. Then, it may clear tz->debugfs after one of those functions has checked it and the struct thermal_debugfs object may be freed prematurely. To address the first problem, pass a pointer to the thermal zone's struct thermal_debugfs object to debugfs_create_file() in thermal_debug_tz_add() and make tze_seq_start(), tze_seq_next(), tze_seq_stop(), and tze_seq_show() retrieve it from s->private instead of a pointer to the thermal zone object. This will ensure that tz_debugfs will be valid across the "mitigations" file accesses until thermal_debugfs_remove_id() called by thermal_debug_tz_remove() removes that file. To address the second problem, use tz->lock in thermal_debug_tz_remove() around the tz->debugfs value check (in case the same thermal zone is removed at the same time in two different threads) and its reset to NULL. Cc :6.8+ # 6.8+

Affected

14 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
debianlinux< linux 6.8.11-1 (forky)linux 6.8.11-1 (forky)
linuxlinux
linuxlinux>= 7ef01f228c9f54c6260319858be138a8a7e9e704 < 6c57bdd0505422d5ccd2df541d993aec978c842e6c57bdd0505422d5ccd2df541d993aec978c842e
linuxlinux>= 7ef01f228c9f54c6260319858be138a8a7e9e704 < c7f7c37271787a7f77d7eedc132b0b419a76b4c8c7f7c37271787a7f77d7eedc132b0b419a76b4c8
linuxlinux_kernel
linuxlinux_kernel
linuxlinux_kernel
linuxlinux_kernel
linuxlinux_kernel
linuxlinux_kernel
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 6.8.11-16.8.11-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 6.8.11-16.8.11-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 6.8.0-40.406.8.0-40.40
linuxlinux_kernel>= 6.8 < 6.8.106.8.10

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.15.5MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
osv6.5MEDIUM
vendor_ubuntu6.5MEDIUM
vendor_debian5.5LOW
vendor_redhat5.5MEDIUM
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