CVE Catalog

CVE-2024-26920

MediumCVSS 5.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.26%

16th percentile - higher than 16% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the register_snapshot_trigger() function in the tracing/trigger subsystem returns success (0) even when snapshot allocation fails. This causes the snapshot trigger to be registered without reporting an error.

Risk Assessment

May lead to incorrect tracing behavior and unnoticed allocation failures, hindering diagnostics and system stability.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix that returns an error code when snapshot allocation fails.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tracing/trigger: Fix to return error if failed to alloc snapshot Fix register_snapshot_trigger() to return error code if it failed to allocate a snapshot instead of 0 (success). Unless that, it will register snapshot trigger without an error.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS