CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2023-52633

Published: Apr 02, 2024 | Modified: Apr 02, 2024
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

um: time-travel: fix time corruption

In basic time-travel mode (without =inf-cpu or =ext), we still get timer interrupts. These can happen at arbitrary points in time, i.e. while in timer_read(), which pushes time forward just a little bit. Then, if we happen to get the interrupt after calculating the new time to push to, but before actually finishing that, the interrupt will set the time to a value thats incompatible with the forward, and well crash because time goes backwards when we do the forwarding.

Fix this by reading the time_travel_time, calculating the adjustment, and doing the adjustment all with interrupts disabled.

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