CVE-2024-38618

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.
Configurations

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History

04 Nov 2025, 18:16

Type Values Removed Values Added
References
  • () https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00020.html -

03 Oct 2025, 16:07

Type Values Removed Values Added
References () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2c95241ac5fc90c929d6c0c023e84bf0d30e84c3 - () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2c95241ac5fc90c929d6c0c023e84bf0d30e84c3 - Patch
References () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4a63bd179fa8d3fcc44a0d9d71d941ddd62f0c4e - () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4a63bd179fa8d3fcc44a0d9d71d941ddd62f0c4e - Patch
References () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/68396c825c43664b20a3a1ba546844deb2b4e48f - () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/68396c825c43664b20a3a1ba546844deb2b4e48f - Patch
References () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/74bfb8d90f2601718ae203faf45a196844c01fa1 - () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/74bfb8d90f2601718ae203faf45a196844c01fa1 - Patch
References () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/83f0ba8592b9e258fd80ac6486510ab1dcd7ad6e - () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/83f0ba8592b9e258fd80ac6486510ab1dcd7ad6e - Patch
References () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/abb1ad69d98cf1ff25bb14fff0e7c3f66239e1cd - () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/abb1ad69d98cf1ff25bb14fff0e7c3f66239e1cd - Patch
References () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bdd0aa055b8ec7e24bbc19513f3231958741d0ab - () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bdd0aa055b8ec7e24bbc19513f3231958741d0ab - Patch
References () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ceab795a67dd28dd942d0d8bba648c6c0f7a044b - () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ceab795a67dd28dd942d0d8bba648c6c0f7a044b - Patch
CWE NVD-CWE-noinfo
CPE cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
First Time Linux
Linux linux Kernel
CVSS v2 : unknown
v3 : 5.3
v2 : unknown
v3 : 5.5

Information

Published : 2024-06-19 14:15

Updated : 2025-11-04 18:16


NVD link : CVE-2024-38618

Mitre link : CVE-2024-38618

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2024-38618


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Products Affected

linux

  • linux_kernel