Information Exposure Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [5.6,6.6.90)[6.7,6.12.9)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.2% (10th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-20698422
  • published10 Oct 2026
  • disclosed5 May 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 5 May 2025

CVE-2024-58237  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 6.6.90, 6.12.9 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure in the bpf_tail_call_static process. An attacker can gain access to sensitive kernel memory and potentially execute arbitrary code by exploiting stale packet pointers after a tail call in eBPF programs, which can lead to out-of-bounds reads and writes in kernel heap memory.

Note: The Linux kernel project assigns a CVE to every bug fix it ships, whether or not the bug has been shown to be exploitable. This advisory was generated from that process and has not been individually assessed for exploitability. See the kernel's CVE process documentation: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/process/cve.rst

CVSS Base Scores

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