CVE-2024-50171 (GCVE-0-2024-50171)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-11-07 09:31
Modified
2026-05-11 20:46
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
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.
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Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Version: 80105befdb4b8cea924711b40b2462b87df65b62
Version: 80105befdb4b8cea924711b40b2462b87df65b62
Version: 80105befdb4b8cea924711b40b2462b87df65b62
Version: 80105befdb4b8cea924711b40b2462b87df65b62
Version: 80105befdb4b8cea924711b40b2462b87df65b62
Version: 80105befdb4b8cea924711b40b2462b87df65b62
Version: 80105befdb4b8cea924711b40b2462b87df65b62
Version: 80105befdb4b8cea924711b40b2462b87df65b62
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