ghsa-8vxc-ww8x-mxp8
Vulnerability from github
Published
2024-11-19 03:31
Modified
2025-11-04 00:32
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Details

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

vsock/virtio: Initialization of the dangling pointer occurring in vsk->trans

During loopback communication, a dangling pointer can be created in vsk->trans, potentially leading to a Use-After-Free condition. This issue is resolved by initializing vsk->trans to NULL.

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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2024-50264"
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  },
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  "modified": "2025-11-04T00:32:03Z",
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}


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