CVE-2024-50170
High
net: bcmasp: fix potential memory leak in bcmasp_xmit()
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: bcmasp: fix potential memory leak in bcmasp_xmit() The bcmasp_xmit() returns NETDEV_TX_OK without freeing skb in case of mapping fails, add dev_kfree_skb() to fix it.
Exploit probability
0.5%
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-2024-50170
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: bcmasp: fix potential memory leak in bcmasp_xmit() The bcmasp_xmit() returns NETDEV_TX_OK without freeing skb in case of mapping fails, 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/7218de0778aefbbbcfe474a55f88bbf6f244627d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f689f20d3e09f2d4d0a2c575a9859115a33e68bd
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fed07d3eb8a8d9fcc0e455175a89bc6445d6faed
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/50xxx/CVE-2024-50170.json
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-50170