Bug 2320454 (CVE-2024-50013) - CVE-2024-50013 kernel: exfat: fix memory leak in exfat_load_bitmap()
Summary: CVE-2024-50013 kernel: exfat: fix memory leak in exfat_load_bitmap()
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2024-50013
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Depends On: 2320814
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2024-10-21 19:03 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-05-13 08:29 UTC (History)
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2025:6966 0 None None None 2025-05-13 08:29:46 UTC

Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-10-21 19:03:06 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

exfat: fix memory leak in exfat_load_bitmap()

If the first directory entry in the root directory is not a bitmap
directory entry, 'bh' will not be released and reassigned, which
will cause a memory leak.
Comment 1 Robb Gatica 2024-10-21 22:37:13 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024102110-CVE-2024-50013-05ef@gregkh/T
Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2025-05-13 08:29:44 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2025:6966 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:6966
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