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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-50164" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-11-07T09:31:41.012Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T00:57:18.967Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:20.494Z" 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-2024-50164" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-50164.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-50164" title: "bpf: Fix overloading of MEM_UNINIT's meaning" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbpf: Fix overloading of MEM_UNINIT's meaning\n\nLonial reported an issue in the BPF verifier where check_mem_size_reg()\nhas the following code:\n\n if (!tnum_is_const(reg-\u003evar_off))\n /* For unprivileged variable accesses, disable raw\n * mode so that the program is required to\n * initialize all the memory that the helper could\n * just partially fill up.\n */\n meta = NULL;\n\nThis means that writes are not checked when the register containing the\nsize of the passed buffer has not a fixed size. Through this bug, a BPF\nprogram can write to a map which is marked as read-only, for example,\n.rodata global maps.\n\nThe problem is that MEM_UNINIT's initial meaning that \"the passed buffer\nto the BPF helper does not need to be initialized\" which was added back\nin commit 435faee1aae9 (\"bpf, verifier: add ARG_PTR_TO_RAW_STACK type\")\ngot overloaded over time with \"the passed buffer is being written to\".\n\nThe problem however is that checks such as the above which were added later\nvia 06c1c049721a (\"bpf: allow helpers access to variable memory\") set meta\nto NULL in order force the user to always initialize the passed buffer to\nthe helper. Due to the current double meaning of MEM_UNINIT, this bypasses\nverifier write checks to the memory (not boundary checks though) and only\nassumes the latter memory is read instead.\n\nFix this by reverting MEM_UNINIT back to its original meaning, and having\nMEM_WRITE as an annotation to BPF helpers in order to then trigger the\nBPF verifier checks for writing to memory.\n\nSome notes: check_arg_pair_ok() ensures that for ARG_CONST_SIZE{,_OR_ZERO}\nwe can access fn-\u003earg_type[arg - 1] since it must contain a preceding\nARG_PTR_TO_MEM. For check_mem_reg() the meta argument can be removed\naltogether since we do check both BPF_READ and BPF_WRITE. Same for the\nequivalent check_kfunc_mem_size_reg()." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"97e6d7dab1ca4648821c790a2b7913d6d5d549db","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"43f4df339a4d375bedcad29a61ae6f0ee7a048f8"},{"version":"97e6d7dab1ca4648821c790a2b7913d6d5d549db","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"48068ccaea957469f1adf78dfd2c1c9a7e18f0fe"},{"version":"97e6d7dab1ca4648821c790a2b7913d6d5d549db","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"54bc31682660810af1bed7ca7a19f182df8d3df8"},{"version":"97e6d7dab1ca4648821c790a2b7913d6d5d549db","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8ea607330a39184f51737c6ae706db7fdca7628e"},{"version":"6099a6c8a749a5c8d5f8b4c4342022a92072a02b","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"bfe25df63048edd4ceaf78a2fc755d5e2befc978","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"717c39718dbc4f7ebcbb7b625fb11851cd9007fe","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5d0bba8232bf22ce13747cbfc8f696318ff01a50","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"70674d11d14eeecad90be4b409a22b902112ba32","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"a08d942ecbf46e23a192093f6983cb1d779f4fa8","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.15.45","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.16"},{"version":"5.17.13","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.18"},{"version":"5.18.2","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.19"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.19","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.19"},{"version":"6.1.125","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.59","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.11.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.11.*"},{"version":"6.12","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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