Riskcovery

CVE-2024-36481

tracing/probes: fix error check in parse_btf_field()

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Jun 21, 2024
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Jun 21, 2024

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

tracing/probes: fix error check in parse_btf_field()

btf_find_struct_member() might return NULL or an error via the ERR_PTR() macro. However, its caller in parse_btf_field() only checks for the NULL condition. Fix this by using IS_ERR() and returning the error up the stack.

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • c440adfbe30257dde905adc1fce51131145f7245 to before ad4b202da2c498fefb69e5d87f67b946e7fe1e6aAffected
  • c440adfbe30257dde905adc1fce51131145f7245 to before 4ed468edfeb54c7202e559eba74c25fac6a0dad0Affected
  • c440adfbe30257dde905adc1fce51131145f7245 to before e569eb34970281438e2b48a3ef11c87459fcfbcbAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.6Affected
  • before 6.6Not affected
  • 6.6.33 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.9.4 through 6.9.*Not affected
  • 6.10 and laterNot affected

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