CVE-2024-50194 — Incorrect Type Conversion or Cast in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
OSV8.8OSV7.8OSV6.7OSV6.3OSV4.7
EPSS
0.0%
top 97.62%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedNov 8
Latest updateMay 28
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
arm64: probes: Fix uprobes for big-endian kernels
The arm64 uprobes code is broken for big-endian kernels as it doesn't
convert the in-memory instruction encoding (which is always
little-endian) into the kernel's native endianness before analyzing and
simulating instructions. This may result in a few distinct problems:
* The kernel may may erroneously reject probing an instruction which can
safely be probed.
* The kernel may…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6