2324422 – (CVE-2024-50168) CVE-2024-50168 kernel: net/sun3_82586: fix potential memory leak in sun3_82586_send_packet()

Bug 2324422 (CVE-2024-50168) - CVE-2024-50168 kernel: net/sun3_82586: fix potential memory leak in sun3_82586_send_packet()

Summary: CVE-2024-50168 kernel: net/sun3_82586: fix potential memory leak in sun3_8258...

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Status:	NEW
Alias:	CVE-2024-50168
Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability
Sub Component:
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Priority:	medium
Severity:	medium
Target Milestone:	---
Assignee:	Product Security DevOps Team
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Depends On:	2324454
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TreeView+	depends on / blocked

Reported:	2024-11-07 17:02 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified:	2024-11-18 06:35 UTC (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-11-07 17:02:08 UTC

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

net/sun3_82586: fix potential memory leak in sun3_82586_send_packet()

The sun3_82586_send_packet() returns NETDEV_TX_OK without freeing skb
in case of skb->len being too long, add dev_kfree_skb() to fix it.

Comment 1 Robb Gatica 2024-11-07 19:40:36 UTC

Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024110748-CVE-2024-50168-60c2@gregkh/T

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