vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2024-50123: kernel: bpf: Add the missing BPF_LINK_TYPE invocation for sockmap

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:C)
Published
Nov 5, 2024
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 10, 2025

Description

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

bpf: Add the missing BPF_LINK_TYPE invocation for sockmap

There is an out-of-bounds read in bpf_link_show_fdinfo() for the sockmap
link fd. Fix it by adding the missing BPF_LINK_TYPE invocation for
sockmap link

Also add comments for bpf_link_type to prevent missing updates in the
future.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
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