{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-42161 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2024-42161 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 30 Jul 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2024-42161 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2024-42161 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 30 Jul 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-42161 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-42161/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-42161/index.md)","id":"CVE-2024-42161","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-42161/index.md","name":"CVE-2024-42161","record":{"aliases":["AZL-47409","AZL-47412","BELL-CVE-2024-42161","DEBIAN-CVE-2024-42161","GHSA-5hjg-m862-88fc","UBUNTU-CVE-2024-42161"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["other"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel BPF","requires_auth":"high_privilege","summary":"A missing default case in a BPF macro could lead to using uninitialized memory, potentially causing undefined behavior or information leaks.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"other"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":6.3,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-908","name":"Use of Uninitialized Resource"}],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbpf: Avoid uninitialized value in BPF_CORE_READ_BITFIELD\n\n[Changes from V1:\n - Use a default branch in the switch statement to initialize `val'.]\n\nGCC warns that `val' may be used uninitialized in the\nBPF_CRE_READ_BITFIELD macro, defined in bpf_core_read.h as:\n\n\t[...]\n\tunsigned long long val;\t\t\t\t\t\t      \\\n\t[...]\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t      \\\n\tswitch (__CORE_RELO(s, field, BYTE_SIZE)) {\t\t\t      \\\n\tcase 1: val = *(const unsigned char *)p; break;\t\t\t      \\\n\tcase 2: val = *(const unsigned short *)p; break;\t\t      \\\n\tcase 4: val = *(const unsigned int *)p; break;\t\t\t      \\\n\tcase 8: val = *(const unsigned long long *)p; break;\t\t      \\\n        }       \t\t\t\t\t\t\t      \\\n\t[...]\n\tval;\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t      \\\n\t}\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t      \\\n\nThis patch adds a default entry in the switch statement that sets\n`val' to zero in order to avoid the warning, and random values to be\nused in case __builtin_preserve_field_info returns unexpected values\nfor BPF_FIELD_BYTE_SIZE.\n\nTested in bpf-next master.\nNo regressions.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"bpf: Avoid uninitialized value in BPF_CORE_READ_BITFIELD","id":"CVE-2024-42161","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"other","year":"2024"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":6,"next":{"headline":"gve: Account for stopped queues when reading NIC stats","id":"CVE-2024-42162"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"f2fs: check validation of fault attrs in f2fs_build_fault_attr()","id":"CVE-2024-42160"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2024-07-30","related":[{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write","id":"CVE-2026-53266","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2026-06-25"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation","id":"CVE-2013-6282","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-11-19"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2022-0185","kev_date_added":"2024-08-21","published":"2022-02-11"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation","id":"CVE-2013-2094","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-05-14"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Unspecified","id":"CVE-2026-53362","kev_date_added":"2026-08-27","published":"2026-07-04"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Missing Initialization of a Variable","id":"CVE-2026-46300","kev_date_added":"2026-10-28","published":"2026-05-23"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Race Condition","id":"CVE-2025-39964","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-10-13"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-05-11","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A missing default case in a BPF macro could lead to using uninitialized memory, potentially causing undefined behavior or information leaks.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-42161/"}