# bpf: Check the remaining info_cnt before repeating btf fields

CVE record · `CVE-2024-50161`

- **Identifiers:** `CVE-2024-50161`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 7.8 High
- **Critical:** No
- **CNA:** Linux
- **Weakness (CWE):** [CWE-129](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/129.html)
- **Tags:** [CWE-129](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/cwe-129.md)
- **Technologies:** [Linux kernel](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/linux-kernel.md)
- **Published:** 7 Nov 2024
- **Updated:** 5 Aug 2026
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 7 Nov 2024, 09:31 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

## Affected products, as the CNA wrote them

- Vendor: Linux. Product: Linux.
  - affected: `64e8ee814819f21beeeda00d4119221443d77992 to before 6f957d972feee9b385ea3ae6530310a84e55ba71` (git)
  - affected: `64e8ee814819f21beeeda00d4119221443d77992 to before 797d73ee232dd1833dec4824bc53a22032e97c1c` (git)
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: Linux. Product: Linux.
  - affected: `6.11`
  - unaffected: `before 6.11` (semver)
  - unaffected: `6.11.6 to 6.11.*, inclusive` (semver)
  - unaffected: `6.12 to *, inclusive` (original_commit_for_fix)
  - Other versions: affected

## Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our own analysis of this CVE. If a person reviews it, this page will say what’s affected and what has to be true for it to matter.

## Severity and exploitation

- 7.8 High, CVSS 3.1: `CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`, from CNA (Linux) (used for this record)
- 5.5 Medium, CVSS 3.1: `CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`, from ADP (CISA-ADP)

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.0020, the 9th percentile, on 8 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

## Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 7 Nov 2024. New records show when each source confirmed them.

## Sources

- [CVE List: CVE-2024-50161](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-50161)
- [NVD: CVE-2024-50161](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-50161)

### References from the CNA

- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6f957d972feee9b385ea3ae6530310a84e55ba71>
- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/797d73ee232dd1833dec4824bc53a22032e97c1c>

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.

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- Everything that needs attention now: <https://agentprime.io/advisories/critical.md>

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