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Red Hat: CVE-2024-2313: bpftrace: unprivileged users can force loading of compromised linux headers (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2024-2313: bpftrace: unprivileged users can force loading of compromised linux headers (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
1
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
03/10/2024
Created
11/07/2024
Added
11/06/2024
Modified
11/13/2024

Description

If kernel headers need to be extracted, bpftrace will attempt to load them from a temporary directory. An unprivileged attacker could use this to force bcc to load compromised linux headers. Linux distributions which provide kernel headers by default are not affected by default.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-bpftrace
  • redhat-upgrade-bpftrace-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-bpftrace-debugsource

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