Improper Input Validation Affecting bpftool package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (15th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-BPFTOOL-7601240
  • published5 Aug 2024
  • disclosed29 Jul 2024

Introduced: 29 Jul 2024

CVE-2024-42097  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:8 bpftool.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream bpftool package and not the bpftool package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

ALSA: emux: improve patch ioctl data validation

In load_data(), make the validation of and skipping over the main info block match that in load_guspatch().

In load_guspatch(), add checking that the specified patch length matches the actually supplied data, like load_data() already did.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1