CVE-2024-36916

blk-iocost: avoid out of bounds shift

Published May 30, 2024 CVSS 3.1 · 6.5 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
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 S E N 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.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

Tracking

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-3843-1 linux-5.10 security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-5703-1 linux security update
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-6949-1 Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-6949-2 Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-6950-1 Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-6950-2 Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-6950-3 Linux kernel (Oracle) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-6950-4 Linux kernel (HWE) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-6952-1 Linux kernel vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-6955-1 Linux kernel (OEM) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-6956-1 Linux kernel (Azure) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-6957-1 Linux kernel (Oracle) vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-7019-1 Linux kernel vulnerabilities
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Debian
Debian debian Linux
CPEs cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.9:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.9:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.9:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Debian
Debian debian Linux
Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.0015}

epss

{'score': 0.00129}

Type Values Removed Values Added
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 4.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L'}

Type Values Removed Values Added
References
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
Linux
Published
Updated
Oct 15, 2026, 12:42 AM
Reserved
May 30, 2024, 3:25 PM
Status
Modified
Published
May 30, 2024, 4:15 PM
Modified
Oct 15, 2026, 1:18 AM
Severity
Low
Public date
May 30, 2024, 12:00 AM