Amazon Linux 2023: CVE-2024-36916: Medium priority package update for kernel

Amazon Linux 2023: CVE-2024-36916: Medium priority package update for kernel

Severity

4

CVSS

(AV:L/AC:L/Au:M/C:N/I:N/A:C)

Published

05/30/2024

Created

02/14/2025

Added

02/14/2025

Modified

02/14/2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: blk-iocost: avoid out of bounds shift UBSAN catches undefined behavior in blk-iocost, where sometimes iocg->delay is shifted right by a number that is too large, resulting in undefined behavior on some architectures. [186.556576] ------------[ cut here ]------------ UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in block/blk-iocost.c:1366:23 shift exponent 64 is too large for 64-bit type 'u64' (aka 'unsigned long long') CPU: 16 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/16 Tainted: G SEN 6.9.0-0_fbk700_debug_rc2_kbuilder_0_gc85af715cac0 #1 Hardware name: Quanta Twin Lakes MP/Twin Lakes Passive MP, BIOS F09_3A23 12/08/2020 Call Trace: <IRQ> dump_stack_lvl+0x8f/0xe0 __ubsan_handle_shift_out_of_bounds+0x22c/0x280 iocg_kick_delay+0x30b/0x310 ioc_timer_fn+0x2fb/0x1f80 __run_timer_base+0x1b6/0x250 ... Avoid that undefined behavior by simply taking the "delay = 0" branch if the shift is too large. I am not sure what the symptoms of an undefined value delay will be, but I suspect it could be more than a little annoying to debug.

Solution(s)

• amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-bpftool
• amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-bpftool-debuginfo
• amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-kernel
• amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-kernel-debuginfo
• amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64
• amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-kernel-debuginfo-common-x86-64
• amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-kernel-devel
• amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-kernel-headers
• amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-kernel-libbpf
• amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-kernel-libbpf-devel
• amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-kernel-libbpf-static
• amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-kernel-livepatch-6-1-91-99-172
• amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-kernel-modules-extra
• amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-kernel-modules-extra-common
• amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-kernel-tools
• amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-kernel-tools-debuginfo
• amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-kernel-tools-devel
• amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-perf
• amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-perf-debuginfo
• amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-python3-perf
• amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-python3-perf-debuginfo

References

• https://attackerkb.com/topics/cve-2024-36916
• CVE - 2024-36916
• https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2023/ALAS-2024-643.html