# CVE-2024-42136: cdrom: rearrange last_media_change check to avoid unintentional overflow

> A signed integer overflow in the Linux kernel CD-ROM driver can cause a crash or undefined behavior when processing specific ioctl calls.

- **Severity:** High 7.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 30 Jul 2024
- **Updated:** 11 May 2026
- **Also known as:** AZL-49313, BELL-CVE-2024-42136, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-42136, GHSA-hcp4-6c7v-w8f2, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-42136

## What is CVE-2024-42136?

CVE-2024-42136 is a high-severity vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 30 Jul 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:

cdrom: rearrange last_media_change check to avoid unintentional overflow

When running syzkaller with the newly reintroduced signed integer wrap
sanitizer we encounter this splat:

[  366.015950] UBSAN: signed-integer-overflow in ../drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c:2361:33
[  366.021089] -9223372036854775808 - 346321 cannot be represented in type '__s64' (aka 'long long')
[  366.025894] program syz-executor.4 is using a deprecated SCSI ioctl, please convert it to SG_IO
[  366.027502] CPU: 5 PID: 28472 Comm: syz-executor.7 Not tainted 6.8.0-rc2-00035-gb3ef86b5a957 #1
[  366.027512] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
[  366.027518] Call Trace:
[  366.027523]  <TASK>
[  366.027533]  dump_stack_lvl+0x93/0xd0
[  366.027899]  handle_overflow+0x171/0x1b0
[  366.038787] ata1.00: invalid multi_count 32 ignored
[  366.043924]  cdrom_ioctl+0x2c3f/0x2d10
[  366.063932]  ? __pm_runtime_resume+0xe6/0x130
[  366.071923]  sr_block_ioctl+0x15d/0x1d0
[  366.074624]  ? __pfx_sr_block_ioctl+0x10/0x10
[  366.077642]  blkdev_ioctl+0x419/0x500
[  366.080231]  ? __pfx_blkdev_ioctl+0x10/0x10
...

Historically, the signed integer overflow sanitizer did not work in the
kernel due to its interaction with `-fwrapv` but this has since been
changed [1] in the newest version of Clang. It was re-enabled in the
kernel with Commit 557f8c582a9ba8ab ("ubsan: Reintroduce signed overflow
sanitizer").

Let's rearrange the check to not perform any arithmetic, thus not
tripping the sanitizer.

Weakness: CWE-190 (Integer Overflow or Wraparound)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-42136?

It affects 2 products.


Products: Debian Debian Linux, Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-42136?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2024-42136 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-42136 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-42136 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-42136 is a high-severity vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 30 Jul 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-42136 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Debian Debian Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-42136/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-42136/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-42136
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-42136
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-42136

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Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.