CVE-2024-35985 - CVE House
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Status published Unknown CVE-2024-35985

sched/eevdf: Prevent vlag from going out of bounds in reweight_eevdf()

Vulnerability Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: sched/eevdf: Prevent vlag from going out of bounds in reweight_eevdf() It was possible to have pick_eevdf() return NULL, which then causes a NULL-deref. This turned out to be due to entity_eligible() returning falsely negative because of a s64 multiplcation overflow. Specifically, reweight_eevdf() computes the vlag without considering the limit placed upon vlag as update_entity_lag() does, and then the scaling multiplication (remember that weight is 20bit fixed point) can overflow. This then leads to the new vruntime being weird which then causes the above entity_eligible() to go side-ways and claim nothing is eligible. Thus limit the range of vlag accordingly. All this was quite rare, but fatal when it does happen.

Impact Analysis

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Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Linux
Vulnerable Versions:
14204acc09f652169baed1141c671429047b1313, eab03c23c2a162085b13200d7942fc5a00b5ccc8, 6.6.4, 6.7, 0, 6.6.30, 6.8.9, 6.9

Timeline

Official Publish: May 20th, 2024
Last Modified: May 23rd, 2026
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

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Weaknesses (CWE)

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MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

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