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Tracker / CVE-2024-38566

CVE-2024-38566

Medium 5.5

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Fix verifier assumptions about socket->sk The verifier assumes that 'sk' field in 'struct socket' is valid and non-NULL when 'socket' pointer itself is trusted and non-NULL. That may not be the case when socket was just created and passed to LSM socket_accept hook. Fix this verifier assumption and adjust tests.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel · 6.4 → 6.6.33
linux linux_kernel · 6.7 → 6.8.12
linux linux_kernel · 6.9 → 6.9.3

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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