CVE-2024-50270

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-50270
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-50270.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2024-50270
Downstream
Related
Published
2024-11-19T01:30:08Z
Modified
2025-10-17T16:37:18.463998Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
mm/damon/core: avoid overflow in damon_feed_loop_next_input()
Details

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

mm/damon/core: avoid overflow in damonfeedloopnextinput()

damonfeedloopnextinput() is inefficient and fragile to overflows. Specifically, 'scoregoaldiff_bp' calculation can overflow when 'score' is high. The calculation is actually unnecessary at all because 'goal' is a constant of value 10,000. Calculation of 'compensation' is again fragile to overflow. Final calculation of return value for under-achiving case is again fragile to overflow when the current score is under-achieving the target.

Add two corner cases handling at the beginning of the function to make the body easier to read, and rewrite the body of the function to avoid overflows and the unnecessary bp value calcuation.

References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
9294a037c01564786abb15436529fae3863268a2
Fixed
2d339a1f0f16ff5dea58e612ff336f0be0d041e9
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
9294a037c01564786abb15436529fae3863268a2
Fixed
4401e9d10ab0281a520b9f8c220f30f60b5c248f

Affected versions

v6.*

v6.10
v6.10-rc1
v6.10-rc2
v6.10-rc3
v6.10-rc4
v6.10-rc5
v6.10-rc6
v6.10-rc7
v6.11
v6.11-rc1
v6.11-rc2
v6.11-rc3
v6.11-rc4
v6.11-rc5
v6.11-rc6
v6.11-rc7
v6.11.1
v6.11.2
v6.11.3
v6.11.4
v6.11.5
v6.11.6
v6.11.7
v6.12-rc1
v6.12-rc2
v6.12-rc3
v6.12-rc4
v6.12-rc5
v6.12-rc6
v6.7
v6.7-rc5
v6.7-rc6
v6.7-rc7
v6.7-rc8
v6.8
v6.8-rc1
v6.8-rc2
v6.8-rc3
v6.8-rc4
v6.8-rc5
v6.8-rc6
v6.8-rc7
v6.9
v6.9-rc1
v6.9-rc2
v6.9-rc3
v6.9-rc4
v6.9-rc5
v6.9-rc6
v6.9-rc7

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.8.0
Fixed
6.11.8