Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2024-50195: kernel security update

Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2024-50195: kernel security update

Severity

5

CVSS

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

Published

11/08/2024

Created

01/16/2025

Added

01/15/2025

Modified

01/30/2025

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.

Solution(s)

• huawei-euleros-2_0_sp9-upgrade-kernel
• huawei-euleros-2_0_sp9-upgrade-kernel-tools
• huawei-euleros-2_0_sp9-upgrade-kernel-tools-libs
• huawei-euleros-2_0_sp9-upgrade-python3-perf

References

• https://attackerkb.com/topics/cve-2024-50195
• CVE - 2024-50195
• EulerOS-SA-2025-1057