{"id":"AZL-48293","summary":"CVE-2024-43889 affecting package kernel for versions less than 5.15.167.1-1","details":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\npadata: Fix possible divide-by-0 panic in padata_mt_helper()\n\nWe are hit with a not easily reproducible divide-by-0 panic in padata.c at\nbootup time.\n\n  [   10.017908] Oops: divide error: 0000 1 PREEMPT SMP NOPTI\n  [   10.017908] CPU: 26 PID: 2627 Comm: kworker/u1666:1 Not tainted 6.10.0-15.el10.x86_64 #1\n  [   10.017908] Hardware name: Lenovo ThinkSystem SR950 [7X12CTO1WW]/[7X12CTO1WW], BIOS [PSE140J-2.30] 07/20/2021\n  [   10.017908] Workqueue: events_unbound padata_mt_helper\n  [   10.017908] RIP: 0010:padata_mt_helper+0x39/0xb0\n    :\n  [   10.017963] Call Trace:\n  [   10.017968]  \u003cTASK\u003e\n  [   10.018004]  ? padata_mt_helper+0x39/0xb0\n  [   10.018084]  process_one_work+0x174/0x330\n  [   10.018093]  worker_thread+0x266/0x3a0\n  [   10.018111]  kthread+0xcf/0x100\n  [   10.018124]  ret_from_fork+0x31/0x50\n  [   10.018138]  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30\n  [   10.018147]  \u003c/TASK\u003e\n\nLooking at the padata_mt_helper() function, the only way a divide-by-0\npanic can happen is when ps-\u003echunk_size is 0.  The way that chunk_size is\ninitialized in padata_do_multithreaded(), chunk_size can be 0 when the\nmin_chunk in the passed-in padata_mt_job structure is 0.\n\nFix this divide-by-0 panic by making sure that chunk_size will be at least\n1 no matter what the input parameters are.","modified":"2026-04-01T05:17:10.228979Z","published":"2024-08-26T11:15:03Z","upstream":["CVE-2024-43889"],"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-43889"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"kernel","ecosystem":"Azure Linux:2","purl":"pkg:rpm/azure-linux/kernel"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"5.15.167.1-1"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-48293.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}