In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rcu: Fix buffer overflow in print_cpu_stall_info() The rcuc-starvation output from print_cpu_stall_info() might overflow the buffer if there is a huge difference in jiffies difference. The situation might seem improbable, but computers sometimes get very confused about time, which can result in full-sized integers, and, in this case, buffer overflow. Also, the unsigned jiffies difference is printed using %ld, which is normally for signed integers. This is intentional for debugging purposes, but it is not obvious from the code. This commit therefore changes sprintf() to snprintf() and adds a clarifying comment about intention of %ld format. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
| Version | Score | Severity | Vector String |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 7 | High | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| Product | Vendor | Version |
|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux | < 10.0.17763.4131 |
| Linux | Linux | < 10.0.17763.4131 |
| Linux | Linux | < 10.0.17763.3887 |
| Linux | Linux | < 10.0.20348.1487 |