CVE-2024-50131

Summary

CVE-2024-50131 is a vulnerability affecting the Linux kernel. The issue lies in the 'tracing' subsystem where a buffer may lack sufficient space for a NULL terminating character if the event length equals the maximum buffer size. This can result in unexpected behavior or potential memory corruption. The vulnerability has been addressed by a committed change that checks for this condition and returns an error if the string length equals the maximum buffer size, preventing the issue.

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