CVE - CVE-2024-36950

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CVE-2024-36950	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: firewire: ohci: mask bus reset interrupts between ISR and bottom half In the FireWire OHCI interrupt handler, if a bus reset interrupt has occurred, mask bus reset interrupts until bus_reset_work has serviced and cleared the interrupt. Normally, we always leave bus reset interrupts masked. We infer the bus reset from the self-ID interrupt that happens shortly thereafter. A scenario where we unmask bus reset interrupts was introduced in 2008 in a007bb857e0b26f5d8b73c2ff90782d9c0972620: If OHCI_PARAM_DEBUG_BUSRESETS (8) is set in the debug parameter bitmask, we will unmask bus reset interrupts so we can log them. irq_handler logs the bus reset interrupt. However, we can't clear the bus reset event flag in irq_handler, because we won't service the event until later. irq_handler exits with the event flag still set. If the corresponding interrupt is still unmasked, the first bus reset will usually freeze the system due to irq_handler being called again each time it exits. This freeze can be reproduced by loading firewire_ohci with "modprobe firewire_ohci debug=-1" (to enable all debugging output). Apparently there are also some cases where bus_reset_work will get called soon enough to clear the event, and operation will continue normally. This freeze was first reported a few months after a007bb85 was committed, but until now it was never fixed. The debug level could safely be set to -1 through sysfs after the module was loaded, but this would be ineffectual in logging bus reset interrupts since they were only unmasked during initialization. irq_handler will now leave the event flag set but mask bus reset interrupts, so irq_handler won't be called again and there will be no freeze. If OHCI_PARAM_DEBUG_BUSRESETS is enabled, bus_reset_work will unmask the interrupt after servicing the event, so future interrupts will be caught as desired. As a side effect to this change, OHCI_PARAM_DEBUG_BUSRESETS can now be enabled through sysfs in addition to during initial module loading. However, when enabled through sysfs, logging of bus reset interrupts will be effective only starting with the second bus reset, after bus_reset_work has executed.
References
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MISC:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/31279bbca40d2f40cb3bbb6d538ec9620a645dec URL:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/31279bbca40d2f40cb3bbb6d538ec9620a645dec MISC:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4f9cc355c328fc4f41cbd9c4cd58b235184fa420 URL:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4f9cc355c328fc4f41cbd9c4cd58b235184fa420 MISC:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5982887de60c1b84f9c0ca07c835814d07fd1da0 URL:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5982887de60c1b84f9c0ca07c835814d07fd1da0 MISC:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6fafe3661712b143d9c69a7322294bd53f559d5d URL:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6fafe3661712b143d9c69a7322294bd53f559d5d MISC:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/752e3c53de0fa3b7d817a83050b6699b8e9c6ec9 URL:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/752e3c53de0fa3b7d817a83050b6699b8e9c6ec9 MISC:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8643332aac0576581cfdf01798ea3e4e0d624b61 URL:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8643332aac0576581cfdf01798ea3e4e0d624b61 MISC:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b3948c69d60279fce5b2eeda92a07d66296c8130 URL:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b3948c69d60279fce5b2eeda92a07d66296c8130 MISC:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fa273f312334246c909475c5868e6daab889cc8c URL:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fa273f312334246c909475c5868e6daab889cc8c
Assigning CNA
kernel.org
Date Record Created
20240530	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
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Assigned (20240530)
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