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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-38588" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-06-19T13:37:43.262Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T11:33:01.142Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:16.009Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-38588" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-38588.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-38588" title: "ftrace: Fix possible use-after-free issue in ftrace_location()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nftrace: Fix possible use-after-free issue in ftrace_location()\n\nKASAN reports a bug:\n\n BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in ftrace_location+0x90/0x120\n Read of size 8 at addr ffff888141d40010 by task insmod/424\n CPU: 8 PID: 424 Comm: insmod Tainted: G W 6.9.0-rc2+\n [...]\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n dump_stack_lvl+0x68/0xa0\n print_report+0xcf/0x610\n kasan_report+0xb5/0xe0\n ftrace_location+0x90/0x120\n register_kprobe+0x14b/0xa40\n kprobe_init+0x2d/0xff0 [kprobe_example]\n do_one_initcall+0x8f/0x2d0\n do_init_module+0x13a/0x3c0\n load_module+0x3082/0x33d0\n init_module_from_file+0xd2/0x130\n __x64_sys_finit_module+0x306/0x440\n do_syscall_64+0x68/0x140\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x71/0x79\n\nThe root cause is that, in lookup_rec(), ftrace record of some address\nis being searched in ftrace pages of some module, but those ftrace pages\nat the same time is being freed in ftrace_release_mod() as the\ncorresponding module is being deleted:\n\n CPU1 | CPU2\n register_kprobes() { | delete_module() {\n check_kprobe_address_safe() { |\n arch_check_ftrace_location() { |\n ftrace_location() { |\n lookup_rec() // USE! | ftrace_release_mod() // Free!\n\nTo fix this issue:\n 1. Hold rcu lock as accessing ftrace pages in ftrace_location_range();\n 2. Use ftrace_location_range() instead of lookup_rec() in\n ftrace_location();\n 3. Call synchronize_rcu() before freeing any ftrace pages both in\n ftrace_process_locs()/ftrace_release_mod()/ftrace_free_mem()." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"ae6aa16fdc163afe6b04b6c073ad4ddd4663c03b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"eea46baf145150910ba134f75a67106ba2222c1b"},{"version":"ae6aa16fdc163afe6b04b6c073ad4ddd4663c03b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1880a324af1c95940a7c954b6b937e86844a33bd"},{"version":"ae6aa16fdc163afe6b04b6c073ad4ddd4663c03b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8ea8ef5e42173560ac510e92a1cc797ffeea8831"},{"version":"ae6aa16fdc163afe6b04b6c073ad4ddd4663c03b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dbff5f0bfb2416b8b55c105ddbcd4f885e98fada"},{"version":"ae6aa16fdc163afe6b04b6c073ad4ddd4663c03b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7b4881da5b19f65709f5c18c1a4d8caa2e496461"},{"version":"ae6aa16fdc163afe6b04b6c073ad4ddd4663c03b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"66df065b3106964e667b37bf8f7e55ec69d0c1f6"},{"version":"ae6aa16fdc163afe6b04b6c073ad4ddd4663c03b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"31310e373f4c8c74e029d4326b283e757edabc0b"},{"version":"ae6aa16fdc163afe6b04b6c073ad4ddd4663c03b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e60b613df8b6253def41215402f72986fee3fc8d"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.7","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.7"},{"version":"5.4.286","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.227","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.162","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.93","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.33","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.8.12","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.8.*"},{"version":"6.9.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.9.*"},{"version":"6.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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