Bug 2348618 (CVE-2024-57953) - CVE-2024-57953 kernel: rtc: tps6594: Fix integer overflow on 32bit systems
Summary: CVE-2024-57953 kernel: rtc: tps6594: Fix integer overflow on 32bit systems
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2024-57953
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-02-27 03:05 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-03-06 08:35 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-02-27 03:05:19 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

rtc: tps6594: Fix integer overflow on 32bit systems

The problem is this multiply in tps6594_rtc_set_offset()

	tmp = offset * TICKS_PER_HOUR;

The "tmp" variable is an s64 but "offset" is a long in the
(-277774)-277774 range.  On 32bit systems a long can hold numbers up to
approximately two billion.  The number of TICKS_PER_HOUR is really large,
(32768 * 3600) or roughly a hundred million.  When you start multiplying
by a hundred million it doesn't take long to overflow the two billion
mark.

Probably the safest way to fix this is to change the type of
TICKS_PER_HOUR to long long because it's such a large number.


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