CVE - CVE-2024-50271

CVE-ID
CVE-2024-50271	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: signal: restore the override_rlimit logic Prior to commit d64696905554 ("Reimplement RLIMIT_SIGPENDING on top of ucounts") UCOUNT_RLIMIT_SIGPENDING rlimit was not enforced for a class of signals. However now it's enforced unconditionally, even if override_rlimit is set. This behavior change caused production issues. For example, if the limit is reached and a process receives a SIGSEGV signal, sigqueue_alloc fails to allocate the necessary resources for the signal delivery, preventing the signal from being delivered with siginfo. This prevents the process from correctly identifying the fault address and handling the error. From the user-space perspective, applications are unaware that the limit has been reached and that the siginfo is effectively 'corrupted'. This can lead to unpredictable behavior and crashes, as we observed with java applications. Fix this by passing override_rlimit into inc_rlimit_get_ucounts() and skip the comparison to max there if override_rlimit is set. This effectively restores the old behavior.
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MISC:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/012f4d5d25e9ef92ee129bd5aa7aa60f692681e1 URL:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/012f4d5d25e9ef92ee129bd5aa7aa60f692681e1 MISC:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0208ea17a1e4456fbfe555f13ae5c28f3d671e40 URL:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0208ea17a1e4456fbfe555f13ae5c28f3d671e40 MISC:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4877d9b2a2ebad3ae240127aaa4cb8258b145cf7 URL:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4877d9b2a2ebad3ae240127aaa4cb8258b145cf7 MISC:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9e05e5c7ee8758141d2db7e8fea2cab34500c6ed URL:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9e05e5c7ee8758141d2db7e8fea2cab34500c6ed
Assigning CNA
kernel.org
Date Record Created
20241021	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 (20241021)
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