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Low ALSA-2024:9188 1 CVE

Low: bpftrace security update

Published Nov 12, 2024 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

Summary

BPFtrace is a high-level tracing language for Linux enhanced Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) available in recent Linux kernels (4.x). BPFtrace uses LLVM as a backend to compile scripts to BPF-bytecode and makes use of BCC for interacting with the Linux BPF system, as well as existing Linux tracing capabilities: kernel dynamic tracing (kprobes), user-level dynamic tracing (uprobes), and tracepoints. The BPFtrace language is inspired by awk and C, and predecessor tracers such as DTrace and SystemTap

Security Fix(es):

* bpftrace: unprivileged users can force loading of compromised linux headers (CVE-2024-2313)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 9 bpftrace 0.21.1-1.el9

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-2313
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2269014
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2024-9188.html