CVE-2024-36481 (GCVE-0-2024-36481)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-06-21 11:18 – Updated: 2026-05-11 20:16
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
tracing/probes: fix error check in parse_btf_field()
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-09-10 17:08 UTC
Assigner
References
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
c440adfbe30257dde905adc1fce51131145f7245 , < ad4b202da2c498fefb69e5d87f67b946e7fe1e6a
(git)
Affected: c440adfbe30257dde905adc1fce51131145f7245 , < 4ed468edfeb54c7202e559eba74c25fac6a0dad0 (git) Affected: c440adfbe30257dde905adc1fce51131145f7245 , < e569eb34970281438e2b48a3ef11c87459fcfbcb (git) |
guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
6.6
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.6 (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.33 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.9.4 , ≤ 6.9.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.10 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
guessed |
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vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.