CVE-2024-50172
Moderate
RDMA/bnxt_re: Fix a possible memory leak
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/bnxt_re: Fix a possible memory leak In bnxt_re_setup_chip_ctx() when bnxt_qplib_map_db_bar() fails driver is not freeing the memory allocated for "rdev->chip_ctx".
Exploit probability
0.2%
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-2024-50172
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/bnxt_re: Fix a possible memory leak In bnxt_re_setup_chip_ctx() when bnxt_qplib_map_db_bar() fails driver is not freeing the memory allocated for "rdev->chip_ctx".
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3fc5410f225d1651580a4aeb7c72f55e28673b53
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/595fa9b17201028d35f92d450fc0ecda873fe469
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/73e04a6114e08b5eb10e589e12b680955accb376
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/50xxx/CVE-2024-50172.json
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-50172