# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-57930"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-01-21T12:01:27.807Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:00:47.785Z"
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-2024-57930"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-57930.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-57930"
title: "tracing: Have process_string() also allow arrays"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntracing: Have process_string() also allow arrays\n\nIn order to catch a common bug where a TRACE_EVENT() TP_fast_assign()\nassigns an address of an allocated string to the ring buffer and then\nreferences it in TP_printk(), which can be executed hours later when the\nstring is free, the function test_event_printk() runs on all events as\nthey are registered to make sure there's no unwanted dereferencing.\n\nIt calls process_string() to handle cases in TP_printk() format that has\n\"%s\". It returns whether or not the string is safe. But it can have some\nfalse positives.\n\nFor instance, xe_bo_move() has:\n\n TP_printk(\"move_lacks_source:%s, migrate object %p [size %zu] from %s to %s device_id:%s\",\n            __entry-\u003emove_lacks_source ? \"yes\" : \"no\", __entry-\u003ebo, __entry-\u003esize,\n            xe_mem_type_to_name[__entry-\u003eold_placement],\n            xe_mem_type_to_name[__entry-\u003enew_placement], __get_str(device_id))\n\nWhere the \"%s\" references into xe_mem_type_to_name[]. This is an array of\npointers that should be safe for the event to access. Instead of flagging\nthis as a bad reference, if a reference points to an array, where the\nrecord field is the index, consider it safe."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"85d7635d54d75a2589f28583dc17feedc3aa4ad6","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3bcdc9039a6e9e6e47ed689a37b8d57894a3c571"},{"version":"f3ff759ec636b4094b8eb2c3801e4e6c97a6b712","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"631b1e09e213c86d5a4ce23d45c81af473bb0ac7"},{"version":"2f6ad0b613cd45cca48e6eb04f65351db018afb0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a64e5295ebc4afdefe69cdf16cc286a60ff8ba4b"},{"version":"683eccacc02d2eb25d1c34b8fb0363fcc7e08f64","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"92bd18c74624e5eb9f96e70076aa46293f4b626f"},{"version":"65a25d9f7ac02e0cf361356e834d1c71d36acca9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"afc6717628f959941d7b33728570568b4af1c4b8"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.1.122","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1.124"},{"version":"6.6.68","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6.70"},{"version":"6.12.7","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.12.9"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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