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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-50194" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-11-08T05:54:09.327Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T20:47:14.917Z" 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-2024-50194" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-50194.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-50194" title: "arm64: probes: Fix uprobes for big-endian kernels" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\narm64: probes: Fix uprobes for big-endian kernels\n\nThe arm64 uprobes code is broken for big-endian kernels as it doesn't\nconvert the in-memory instruction encoding (which is always\nlittle-endian) into the kernel's native endianness before analyzing and\nsimulating instructions. This may result in a few distinct problems:\n\n* The kernel may may erroneously reject probing an instruction which can\n safely be probed.\n\n* The kernel may erroneously erroneously permit stepping an\n instruction out-of-line when that instruction cannot be stepped\n out-of-line safely.\n\n* The kernel may erroneously simulate instruction incorrectly dur to\n interpretting the byte-swapped encoding.\n\nThe endianness mismatch isn't caught by the compiler or sparse because:\n\n* The arch_uprobe::{insn,ixol} fields are encoded as arrays of u8, so\n the compiler and sparse have no idea these contain a little-endian\n 32-bit value. The core uprobes code populates these with a memcpy()\n which similarly does not handle endianness.\n\n* While the uprobe_opcode_t type is an alias for __le32, both\n arch_uprobe_analyze_insn() and arch_uprobe_skip_sstep() cast from u8[]\n to the similarly-named probe_opcode_t, which is an alias for u32.\n Hence there is no endianness conversion warning.\n\nFix this by changing the arch_uprobe::{insn,ixol} fields to __le32 and\nadding the appropriate __le32_to_cpu() conversions prior to consuming\nthe instruction encoding. The core uprobes copies these fields as opaque\nranges of bytes, and so is unaffected by this change.\n\nAt the same time, remove MAX_UINSN_BYTES and consistently use\nAARCH64_INSN_SIZE for clarity.\n\nTested with the following:\n\n| #include \u003cstdio.h\u003e\n| #include \u003cstdbool.h\u003e\n|\n| #define noinline __attribute__((noinline))\n|\n| static noinline void *adrp_self(void)\n| {\n| void *addr;\n|\n| asm volatile(\n| \" adrp %x0, adrp_self\\n\"\n| \" add %x0, %x0, :lo12:adrp_self\\n\"\n| : \"=r\" (addr));\n| }\n|\n|\n| int main(int argc, char *argv)\n| {\n| void *ptr = adrp_self();\n| bool equal = (ptr == adrp_self);\n|\n| printf(\"adrp_self =\u003e %p\\n\"\n| \"adrp_self() =\u003e %p\\n\"\n| \"%s\\n\",\n| adrp_self, ptr, equal ? \"EQUAL\" : \"NOT EQUAL\");\n|\n| return 0;\n| }\n\n.... where the adrp_self() function was compiled to:\n\n| 00000000004007e0 \u003cadrp_self\u003e:\n| 4007e0: 90000000 adrp x0, 400000 \u003c__ehdr_start\u003e\n| 4007e4: 911f8000 add x0, x0, #0x7e0\n| 4007e8: d65f03c0 ret\n\nBefore this patch, the ADRP is not recognized, and is assumed to be\nsteppable, resulting in corruption of the result:\n\n| # ./adrp-self\n| adrp_self =\u003e 0x4007e0\n| adrp_self() =\u003e 0x4007e0\n| EQUAL\n| # echo 'p /root/adrp-self:0x007e0' \u003e /sys/kernel/tracing/uprobe_events\n| # echo 1 \u003e /sys/kernel/tracing/events/uprobes/enable\n| # ./adrp-self\n| adrp_self =\u003e 0x4007e0\n| adrp_self() =\u003e 0xffffffffff7e0\n| NOT EQUAL\n\nAfter this patch, the ADRP is correctly recognized and simulated:\n\n| # ./adrp-self\n| adrp_self =\u003e 0x4007e0\n| adrp_self() =\u003e 0x4007e0\n| EQUAL\n| #\n| # echo 'p /root/adrp-self:0x007e0' \u003e /sys/kernel/tracing/uprobe_events\n| # echo 1 \u003e /sys/kernel/tracing/events/uprobes/enable\n| # ./adrp-self\n| adrp_self =\u003e 0x4007e0\n| adrp_self() =\u003e 0x4007e0\n| EQUAL" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"9842ceae9fa8deae141533d52a6ead7666962c09","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b6a638cb600e13f94b5464724eaa6ab7f3349ca2"},{"version":"9842ceae9fa8deae141533d52a6ead7666962c09","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e6ab336213918575124d6db43dc5d3554526242e"},{"version":"9842ceae9fa8deae141533d52a6ead7666962c09","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cf9ddf9ed94c15564a05bbf6e9f18dffa0c7df80"},{"version":"9842ceae9fa8deae141533d52a6ead7666962c09","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cf60d19d40184e43d9a624e55a0da73be09e938d"},{"version":"9842ceae9fa8deae141533d52a6ead7666962c09","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"14841bb7a531b96e2dde37423a3b33e75147c60d"},{"version":"9842ceae9fa8deae141533d52a6ead7666962c09","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8165bf83b8a64be801d59cd2532b0d1ffed74d00"},{"version":"9842ceae9fa8deae141533d52a6ead7666962c09","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3d2530c65be04e93720e30f191a7cf1a3aa8b51c"},{"version":"9842ceae9fa8deae141533d52a6ead7666962c09","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"13f8f1e05f1dc36dbba6cba0ae03354c0dafcde7"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.10","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.10"},{"version":"4.19.323","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"4.19.*"},{"version":"5.4.285","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.229","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.170","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.115","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.58","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.11.5","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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