CVE-2024-26968 clk: qcom: gcc-ipq9574: fix terminating of frequency table arrays

What is CVE-2024-26968?

CVE-2024-26968 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 1 May 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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

clk: qcom: gcc-ipq9574: fix terminating of frequency table arrays

The frequency table arrays are supposed to be terminated with an empty element. Add such entry to the end of the arrays where it is missing in order to avoid possible out-of-bound access when the table is traversed by functions like qcom_find_freq() or qcom_find_freq_floor().

Only compile tested.

Weakness: CWE-129

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-26968?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2024-26968?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2024-26968 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-26968 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as BELL-CVE-2024-26968, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-26968, GHSA-8979-xf4w-fmjp, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-26968.