CVE-2024-36481: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tracing/probes: fix error check in parse_btf_field() btf_find_struct_member() might return NULL or an error via the ERR_PTR() macro. However, its caller in parse_btf_field() only checks for the NULL condition. Fix this by using IS_ERR() and returning the error up the stack.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: before 6.6 (fixed in 6.6); from 6.6.1, before 6.6.33 (fixed in 6.6.33); from 6.9, before 6.9.4 (fixed in 6.9.4); version 6.10.0 only

Published 2024-06-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.