CVE-2024-36975 Information

Description

In the Linux kernel the following vulnerability has been resolved:

KEYS: trusted: Do not use WARN when encode fails

When asn1_encode_sequence() fails WARN is not the correct solution.

1. asn1_encode_sequence() is not an internal function (located in lib/asn1_encode.c).
2. Location is known which makes the stack trace useless.
3. Results a crash if panic_on_warn is set.

It is also noteworthy that the use of WARN is undocumented and it should be avoided unless there is a carefully considered rationale to use it.

Replace WARN with pr_err and print the return value instead which is only useful piece of information.

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/96f650995c70237b061b497c66755e32908f8972 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/681935009fec3fc22af97ee312d4a24ccf3cf087 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1c652e1e10676f942149052d9329b8bf2703529a https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d32c6e09f7c4bec3ebc4941323f0aa6366bc1487 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ff91cc12faf798f573dab2abc976c1d5b1862fea https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/050bf3c793a07f96bd1e2fd62e1447f731ed733b