CVE-2024-50168
Moderate
net/sun3_82586: fix potential memory leak in sun3_82586_send_packet()
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.
Exploit probability
0.2%
Published
November 7, 2024
Required by
Not available
Last source change
August 12, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
2018 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2024-50168
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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.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/137010d26dc5cd47cd62fef77cbe952d31951b7a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1a17a4ac2d57102497fac53b53c666dba6a0c20d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2cb3f56e827abb22c4168ad0c1bbbf401bb2f3b8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6dc937a3086e344f965ca5c459f8f3eb6b68d890
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/84f2bac74000dbb7a177d9b98a17031ec8d07ec5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8d5b20fbc548650019afa96822b6a33ea4ec8aa5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9c6ce55e6f0bd1541f112833006b4052614c7d94
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/db755e55349045375c5c7036e8650afb3ff419d8
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/50xxx/CVE-2024-50168.json
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00001.html
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-50168