CVE-2024-38566 is a medium-severity vulnerability in the Linux kernel's BPF verifier, affecting the 'socket' structure. The flaw stems from an incorrect assumption that the 'sk' field within a valid 'socket' pointer is always non-NULL, which is not true for newly created sockets passed to the LSM socket_accept hook. This could lead to a high impact on integrity (I:H) with local access (AV:L) and low attack complexity (AC:L). Currently, there is no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 6.4, < 6.6.33CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 6.7, < 6.8.12CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 6.9, < 6.9.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
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