vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2024-42253: linux, linux-6.1 -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Aug 8, 2024
Added
Sep 2, 2024
Modified
May 27, 2025

Description

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

gpio: pca953x: fix pca953x_irq_bus_sync_unlock race

Ensure that `i2c_lock' is held when setting interrupt latch and mask in
pca953x_irq_bus_sync_unlock() in order to avoid races.

The other (non-probe) call site pca953x_gpio_set_multiple() ensures the
lock is held before calling pca953x_write_regs().

The problem occurred when a request raced against irq_bus_sync_unlock()
approximately once per thousand reboots on an i.MX8MP based system.

* Normal case

0-0022: write register AI|3a {03,02,00,00,01} Input latch P0
0-0022: write register AI|49 {fc,fd,ff,ff,fe} Interrupt mask P0
0-0022: write register AI|08 {ff,00,00,00,00} Output P3
0-0022: write register AI|12 {fc,00,00,00,00} Config P3

* Race case

0-0022: write register AI|08 {ff,00,00,00,00} Output P3
0-0022: write register AI|08 {03,02,00,00,01} *** Wrong register ***
0-0022: write register AI|12 {fc,00,00,00,00} Config P3
0-0022: write register AI|49 {fc,fd,ff,ff,fe} Interrupt mask P0

Solution(s)

debian-upgrade-linuxdebian-upgrade-linux-6-1no-fix-debian-deb-package
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