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LIN1019-11072 : Security Advisory - linux - CVE-2020-36776

Created: Feb 27, 2024    Updated: Mar 15, 2024
Resolved Date: Mar 15, 2024
Found In Version: 10.19.45.1
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux LTS 19
Component/s: Kernel

Description

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

thermal/drivers/cpufreq_cooling: Fix slab OOB issue

Slab OOB issue is scanned by KASAN in cpu_power_to_freq().
If power is limited below the power of OPP0 in EM table,
it will cause slab out-of-bound issue with negative array
index.

Return the lowest frequency if limited power cannot found
a suitable OPP in EM table to fix this issue.

Backtrace:
<ffffffd02d2a37f0>] die+0x104/0x5ac
[<ffffffd02d2a5630>] bug_handler+0x64/0xd0
[<ffffffd02d288ce4>] brk_handler+0x160/0x258
[<ffffffd02d281e5c>] do_debug_exception+0x248/0x3f0
[<ffffffd02d284488>] el1_dbg+0x14/0xbc
[<ffffffd02d75d1d4>] __kasan_report+0x1dc/0x1e0
[<ffffffd02d75c2e0>] kasan_report+0x10/0x20
[<ffffffd02d75def8>] __asan_report_load8_noabort+0x18/0x28
[<ffffffd02e6fce5c>] cpufreq_power2state+0x180/0x43c
[<ffffffd02e6ead80>] power_actor_set_power+0x114/0x1d4
[<ffffffd02e6fac24>] allocate_power+0xaec/0xde0
[<ffffffd02e6f9f80>] power_allocator_throttle+0x3ec/0x5a4
[<ffffffd02e6ea888>] handle_thermal_trip+0x160/0x294
[<ffffffd02e6edd08>] thermal_zone_device_check+0xe4/0x154
[<ffffffd02d351cb4>] process_one_work+0x5e4/0xe28
[<ffffffd02d352f44>] worker_thread+0xa4c/0xfac
[<ffffffd02d360124>] kthread+0x33c/0x358
[<ffffffd02d289940>] ret_from_fork+0xc/0x18

CREATE(Triage):(User=admin) [CVE-2020-36776 (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-36776)
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