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Tracker / CVE-2024-36481

CVE-2024-36481

Medium 5.5

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.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · … → 6.6
linux linux_kernel · 6.6.1 → 6.6.33
linux linux_kernel · 6.9 → 6.9.4

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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