| Name | CVE-2024-2314 |
| Description | If kernel headers need to be extracted, bcc will attempt to load them from a temporary directory. An unprivileged attacker could use this to force bcc to load compromised linux headers. Linux distributions which provide kernel headers by default are not affected by default. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 1071747 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| bpfcc (PTS) | bullseye | 0.18.0+ds-2 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 0.26.0+ds-1 | vulnerable |
| sid, trixie | 0.31.0+ds-4 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| bpfcc | source | buster | (not affected) | | | |
| bpfcc | source | (unstable) | 0.31.0+ds-2 | unimportant | | 1071747 |
Notes
[buster] - bpfcc <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
Fixed by: https://github.com/iovisor/bcc/commit/008ea09e891194c072f2a9305a3c872a241dc342 (v0.30.0)
Introduced by: https://github.com/iovisor/bcc/commit/ae92f3ddb6aa5b81c750abf3540b99f24d219e67 (v0.10.0)
Attempt to mitigate in https://bugs.debian.org/1028479 (applied in 0.25.0+ds-2), and
resulting in the additional problem in https://bugs.debian.org/1068297
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1221229#c1
Does not affect Debian kernels since CONFIG_IKHEADERS isn't set