CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-38574

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2024-06-19 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
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