CVE-2024-50167
Moderate
be2net: fix potential memory leak in be_xmit()
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: be2net: fix potential memory leak in be_xmit() The be_xmit() returns NETDEV_TX_OK without freeing skb in case of be_xmit_enqueue() fails, add dev_kfree_skb_any() to fix it.
Exploit probability
0.3%
Published
November 7, 2024
Required by
Not available
Last source change
August 12, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2024-50167
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: be2net: fix potential memory leak in be_xmit() The be_xmit() returns NETDEV_TX_OK without freeing skb in case of be_xmit_enqueue() fails, add dev_kfree_skb_any() to fix it.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4c5f170ef4f85731a4d43ad9a6ac51106c0946be
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/641c1beed52bf3c6deb0193fe4d38ec9ff75d2ae
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6b7ce8ee01c33c380aaa5077ff25215492e7eb0e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/77bc881d370e850b7f3cd2b5eae67d596b40efbc
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/919ab6e2370289a2748780f44a43333cd3878aa7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/941026023c256939943a47d1c66671526befbb26
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e4dd8bfe0f6a23acd305f9b892c00899089bd621
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e86a79b804e26e3b7f1e415b22a085c0bb7ea3d3
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/50xxx/CVE-2024-50167.json
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00001.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00002.html
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-50167