CVE-2024-44931 - CVE House
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Status published Unknown CVE-2024-44931

gpio: prevent potential speculation leaks in gpio_device_get_desc()

Vulnerability Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: gpio: prevent potential speculation leaks in gpio_device_get_desc() Userspace may trigger a speculative read of an address outside the gpio descriptor array. Users can do that by calling gpio_ioctl() with an offset out of range. Offset is copied from user and then used as an array index to get the gpio descriptor without sanitization in gpio_device_get_desc(). This change ensures that the offset is sanitized by using array_index_nospec() to mitigate any possibility of speculative information leaks. This bug was discovered and resolved using Coverity Static Analysis Security Testing (SAST) by Synopsys, Inc.

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:
521a2ad6f862a28e2e43cb3e254a26bf0f9452e9, 4.6, 0, 4.19.323, 5.4.285, 5.10.227, 5.15.168, 6.1.112, 6.6.46, 6.10.5, 6.11

Timeline

Official Publish: August 26th, 2024
Last Modified: May 11th, 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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