PT-2024-1994 · Linux+7 · Linux Kernel+7

Jiri Olsa

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Published

2024-01-04

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Updated

2025-09-29

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CVE-2024-26591

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

VectorAV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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 bpf tracing prog attach function. This can occur when a specific sequence of events happens, including loading a rawtp program, loading a fentry program with rawtp as the target fd, creating a tracing link for the fentry program with target fd = 0, and repeating this process. The result is a kernel crash due to the null pointer dereference. The technical details involve the prog->aux->dst trampoline being NULL, tgt prog being NULL because no target fd was provided to link create, and prog->aux->attach btf being NULL because the program was loaded with attach prog fd=X. The exact impact and the number of potentially affected devices are not specified.
Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

NULL Pointer Dereference

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Weakness Enumeration

Related Identifiers

ALSA-2025_12746
ALSA-2025_12752
ALSA-2025_12753
ALSA-2025_16880
ALT-PU-2024-3291
ALT-PU-2024-4263
ALT-PU-2024-4843
BDU:2024-01844
CVE-2024-26591
INFSA-2024_9315
OPENSUSE-SU-2024_0858-1
RHSA-2024:9315
RHSA-2024_9315
SUSE-SU-2024:0855-1
SUSE-SU-2024:0858-1
SUSE-SU-2024:0900-1
SUSE-SU-2024:0900-2
SUSE-SU-2024:0910-1
SUSE-SU-2024:0977-1
USN-6688-1
USN-6725-1
USN-6725-2
USN-6743-1
USN-6743-2
USN-6743-3

Affected Products

Alt Linux
Astra Linux
Linuxmint
Linux Kernel
Red Hat
Red Os
Suse
Ubuntu