CVE-2026-44778

A flaw was found in Inspektor Gadget. An unprivileged container can trigger a denial of service in the privileged Inspektor Gadget process. This occurs when a custom gadget with an eBPF section attaches to a specially crafted ELF Executable and Linkable Format binary. The USDT Userland Statically...

CVE-2026-44778 Inspektor Gadget: Unprivileged container can crash USDT note parser via crafted ELF

Inspektor Gadget is a set of tools and framework for data collection and system inspection on Kubernetes clusters and Linux hosts using eBPF. From 0.28.0 until 0.53.1, the USDT note parser in pkg/uprobetracer/usdt.go can allow an unprivileged container to crash or exhaust the memory of the...

Improper Input Validation

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Input Validation via the getUsdtInfo function in the USDT note parser. An attacker can cause the process to crash or exhaust memory by supplying a crafted ELF file with manipulated note sizes. This is only exploitable if a gadg...

Improper Input Validation

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Input Validation via the getUsdtInfo function in the USDT note parser. An attacker can cause the process to crash or exhaust memory by supplying a crafted ELF file with manipulated note sizes. This is only exploitable if a gadg...