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CVE-2024-50167 (GCVE-0-2024-50167)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-11-07 09:31 – Updated: 2026-05-11 20:46
VLAI
Title
be2net: fix potential memory leak in be_xmit()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: be2net: fix potential memory leak in be_xmit() The be_xmit() returns NETDEV_TX_OK without freeing skb in case of be_xmit_enqueue() fails, add dev_kfree_skb_any() to fix it.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-10-01 20:19 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-401 - Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 760c295e0e8d982917d004c9095cff61c0cbd803 , < 941026023c256939943a47d1c66671526befbb26 (git)
Affected: 760c295e0e8d982917d004c9095cff61c0cbd803 , < 6b7ce8ee01c33c380aaa5077ff25215492e7eb0e (git)
Affected: 760c295e0e8d982917d004c9095cff61c0cbd803 , < 77bc881d370e850b7f3cd2b5eae67d596b40efbc (git)
Affected: 760c295e0e8d982917d004c9095cff61c0cbd803 , < 919ab6e2370289a2748780f44a43333cd3878aa7 (git)
Affected: 760c295e0e8d982917d004c9095cff61c0cbd803 , < 4c5f170ef4f85731a4d43ad9a6ac51106c0946be (git)
Affected: 760c295e0e8d982917d004c9095cff61c0cbd803 , < 641c1beed52bf3c6deb0193fe4d38ec9ff75d2ae (git)
Affected: 760c295e0e8d982917d004c9095cff61c0cbd803 , < e86a79b804e26e3b7f1e415b22a085c0bb7ea3d3 (git)
Affected: 760c295e0e8d982917d004c9095cff61c0cbd803 , < e4dd8bfe0f6a23acd305f9b892c00899089bd621 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.2
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.2 (semver)
Unaffected: 4.19.323 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.285 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.229 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.170 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.115 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.59 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.11.6 , ≤ 6.11.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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