# CVE-2024-50067: uprobe: avoid out-of-bounds memory access of fetching args

> A local attacker can trigger out-of-bounds memory access in the Linux kernel uprobe subsystem, potentially leading to code execution or privilege escalation.

- **Severity:** High 7.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 28 Oct 2024
- **Updated:** 5 Aug 2026
- **Also known as:** AZL-51837, AZL-51841, BELL-CVE-2024-50067, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-50067, GHSA-28pg-93m7-9jmx, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2024-50067, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2024-50067, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50067

## What is CVE-2024-50067?

CVE-2024-50067 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 28 Oct 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

uprobe: avoid out-of-bounds memory access of fetching args

Uprobe needs to fetch args into a percpu buffer, and then copy to ring
buffer to avoid non-atomic context problem.

Sometimes user-space strings, arrays can be very large, but the size of
percpu buffer is only page size. And store_trace_args() won't check
whether these data exceeds a single page or not, caused out-of-bounds
memory access.

It could be reproduced by following steps:
1. build kernel with CONFIG_KASAN enabled
2. save follow program as test.c

```
\#include <stdio.h>
\#include <stdlib.h>
\#include <string.h>

// If string length large than MAX_STRING_SIZE, the fetch_store_strlen()
// will return 0, cause __get_data_size() return shorter size, and
// store_trace_args() will not trigger out-of-bounds access.
// So make string length less than 4096.
\#define STRLEN 4093

void generate_string(char *str, int n)
{
    int i;
    for (i = 0; i < n; ++i)
    {
        char c = i % 26 + 'a';
        str[i] = c;
    }
    str[n-1] = '\0';
}

void print_string(char *str)
{
    printf("%s\n", str);
}

int main()
{
    char tmp[STRLEN];

    generate_string(tmp, STRLEN);
    print_string(tmp);

    return 0;
}
```
3. compile program
`gcc -o test test.c`

4. get the offset of `print_string()`
```
objdump -t test | grep -w print_string
0000000000401199 g     F .text  000000000000001b              print_string
```

5. configure uprobe with offset 0x1199
```
off=0x1199

cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
echo "p /root/test:${off} arg1=+0(%di):ustring arg2=\$comm arg3=+0(%di):ustring"
 > uprobe_events
echo 1 > events/uprobes/enable
echo 1 > tracing_on
```

6. run `test`, and kasan will report error.
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in strncpy_from_user+0x1d6/0x1f0
Write of size 8 at addr ffff88812311c004 by task test/499CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 499 Comm: test Not tainted 6.12.0-rc3+ #18
Hardware name: Red Hat KVM, BIOS 1.16.0-4.al8 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x55/0x70
 print_address_description.constprop.0+0x27/0x310
 kasan_report+0x10f/0x120
 ? strncpy_from_user+0x1d6/0x1f0
 strncpy_from_user+0x1d6/0x1f0
 ? rmqueue.constprop.0+0x70d/0x2ad0
 process_fetch_insn+0xb26/0x1470
 ? __pfx_process_fetch_insn+0x10/0x10
 ? _raw_spin_lock+0x85/0xe0
 ? __pfx__raw_spin_lock+0x10/0x10
 ? __pte_offset_map+0x1f/0x2d0
 ? unwind_next_frame+0xc5f/0x1f80
 ? arch_stack_walk+0x68/0xf0
 ? is_bpf_text_address+0x23/0x30
 ? kernel_text_address.part.0+0xbb/0xd0
 ? __kernel_text_address+0x66/0xb0
 ? unwind_get_return_address+0x5e/0xa0
 ? __pfx_stack_trace_consume_entry+0x10/0x10
 ? arch_stack_walk+0xa2/0xf0
 ? _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x8b/0xf0
 ? __pfx__raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x10/0x10
 ? depot_alloc_stack+0x4c/0x1f0
 ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0xe/0x30
 ? stack_depot_save_flags+0x35d/0x4f0
 ? kasan_save_stack+0x34/0x50
 ? kasan_save_stack+0x24/0x50
 ? mutex_lock+0x91/0xe0
 ? __pfx_mutex_lock+0x10/0x10
 prepare_uprobe_buffer.part.0+0x2cd/0x500
 uprobe_dispatcher+0x2c3/0x6a0
 ? __pfx_uprobe_dispatcher+0x10/0x10
 ? __kasan_slab_alloc+0x4d/0x90
 handler_chain+0xdd/0x3e0
 handle_swbp+0x26e/0x3d0
 ? __pfx_handle_swbp+0x10/0x10
 ? uprobe_pre_sstep_notifier+0x151/0x1b0
 irqentry_exit_to_user_mode+0xe2/0x1b0
 asm_exc_int3+0x39/0x40
RIP: 0033:0x401199
Code: 01 c2 0f b6 45 fb 88 02 83 45 fc 01 8b 45 fc 3b 45 e4 7c b7 8b 45 e4 48 98 48 8d 50 ff 48 8b 45 e8 48 01 d0 ce
RSP: 002b:00007ffdf00576a8 EFLAGS: 00000206
RAX: 00007ffdf00576b0 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000ff2
RDX: 0000000000000ffc RSI: 0000000000000ffd RDI: 00007ffdf00576b0
RBP: 00007ffdf00586b0 R08: 00007feb2f9c0d20 R09: 00007feb2f9c0d20
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 0000000000401040
R13: 00007ffdf0058780 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
 </TASK>

This commit enforces the buffer's maxlen less than a page-size to avoid
store_trace_args() out-of-memory access.

Weakness: CWE-787 (Out-of-bounds Write), CWE-416 (Use After Free)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-50067?

It affects 2 products.


Products: Debian Debian Linux, Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-50067?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2024-50067 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-50067 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-50067 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-50067 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 28 Oct 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-50067 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Debian Debian Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-50067/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-50067/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-50067
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-50067
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-50067

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