CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-38574
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2024-06-19
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
libbpf: Prevent null-pointer dereference when prog to load has no BTF
In bpf_objec_load_prog(), there's no guarantee that obj->btf is non-NULL
when passing it to btf__fd(), and this function does not perform any
check before dereferencing its argument (as bpf_object__btf_fd() used to
do). As a consequence, we get segmentation fault errors in bpftool (for
example) when trying to load programs that come without BTF information.
v2: Keep btf__fd() in the fix instead of reverting to bpf_object__btf_fd().
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.8 < 6.8.12)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.9 < 6.9.3)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1fd91360a75833b7110af9834ae26c977e1273e0 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9bf48fa19a4b1d186e08b20bf7e5de26a15644fb Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ef80b59acfa4dee4b5eaccb15572b69248831104 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1fd91360a75833b7110af9834ae26c977e1273e0 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9bf48fa19a4b1d186e08b20bf7e5de26a15644fb Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ef80b59acfa4dee4b5eaccb15572b69248831104 Patch