Security Advisory

CVE-2021-46940

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2024-02-27 18:40:28
Last updated 2026-05-11 13:44:51
Assigner Linux
State PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tools/power turbostat: Fix offset overflow issue in index converting The idx_to_offset() function returns type int (32-bit signed), but MSR_PKG_ENERGY_STAT is u32 and would be interpreted as a negative number. The end result is that it hits the if (offset < 0) check in update_msr_sum() which prevents the timer callback from updating the stat in the background when long durations are used. The similar issue exists in offset_to_idx() and update_msr_sum(). Fix this issue by converting the int to off_t accordingly.