Vulnerability in Linux

CVE-2024-50120

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: Handle kstrdup failures for passwords In smb3_reconfigure(), after duplicating ctx->password and ctx->password2 with kstrdup(), we need to check for allocation failures. If ses->password allocation fails, return -ENOMEM. If ses->password2 allocation fails, free ses->password, set it to NULL, and return -ENOMEM.

EPSS: 0.002 (12.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

  • Linux — versions c1eb537bf4560b3ad4df606c266c665624f3b502, 7e8cffa4f85e6839335d75e6b47f918d90c1d194, 6.11.6
  • Linux Linux_kernel — versions 6.12

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-50120?
CVE-2024-50120 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2024-11-05.
How severe is CVE-2024-50120?
Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-50120 known to be exploited?
1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.