2324334 – (CVE-2024-50171) CVE-2024-50171 kernel: net: systemport: fix potential memory leak in bcm_sysport_xmit()

Bug 2324334 (CVE-2024-50171) - CVE-2024-50171 kernel: net: systemport: fix potential memory leak in bcm_sysport_xmit()

Summary: CVE-2024-50171 kernel: net: systemport: fix potential memory leak in bcm_sysp...

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Status:	NEW
Alias:	CVE-2024-50171
Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Priority:	medium
Severity:	medium
Target Milestone:	---
Assignee:	Product Security DevOps Team
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Depends On:	2324385
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TreeView+	depends on / blocked

Reported:	2024-11-07 10:02 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified:	2024-11-07 16:39 UTC (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-11-07 10:02:33 UTC

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

net: systemport: fix potential memory leak in bcm_sysport_xmit()

The bcm_sysport_xmit() returns NETDEV_TX_OK without freeing skb
in case of dma_map_single() fails, add dev_kfree_skb() to fix it.

Comment 1 Robb Gatica 2024-11-07 15:54:17 UTC

Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024110749-CVE-2024-50171-38cb@gregkh/T

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