Out-of-bounds Write Affecting bpftool package, versions <0:7.4.0-503.23.2.el9_5


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on AlmaLinux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Attacked
EPSS
0.14% (50th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALMALINUX9-BPFTOOL-8722377
  • published14 Feb 2025
  • disclosed11 Feb 2025

Introduced: 11 Feb 2025

NewCVE-2024-53104  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade AlmaLinux:9 bpftool to version 0:7.4.0-503.23.2.el9_5 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALSA-2025:1262.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream bpftool package and not the bpftool package as distributed by AlmaLinux. See How to fix? for AlmaLinux:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

media: uvcvideo: Skip parsing frames of type UVC_VS_UNDEFINED in uvc_parse_format

This can lead to out of bounds writes since frames of this type were not taken into account when calculating the size of the frames buffer in uvc_parse_streaming.

CVSS Scores

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