Vulnerability in Linux

CVE-2024-50204

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs: don't try and remove empty rbtree node When copying a namespace we won't have added the new copy into the namespace rbtree until after the copy succeeded. Calling free_mnt_ns() will try to remove the copy from the rbtree which is invalid. Simply free the namespace skeleton directly.

EPSS: 0.002 (7.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.