Linux · Linux Kernel · CVE-2024-38574
**Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions**
Linux kernel (affected versions not specified)
**Description**
The issue is related to a null-pointer dereference in the libbpf component of the Linux kernel. Specifically, in the `bpf objec load prog()` function, there is no guarantee that `obj->btf` is non-NULL when passed to `btf fd()`, which does not perform any checks before dereferencing its argument. This can lead to segmentation fault errors when trying to load programs without BTF information, for example, in bpftool.
**Recommendations**
At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.