CVE-2024-50171 (GCVE-0-2024-50171)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-11-07 09:31 – Updated: 2025-11-03 22:26
VLAI?
Title
net: systemport: fix potential memory leak in bcm_sysport_xmit()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: systemport: fix potential memory leak in bcm_sysport_xmit() The bcm_sysport_xmit() returns NETDEV_TX_OK without freeing skb in case of dma_map_single() fails, add dev_kfree_skb() to fix it.
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-401 - Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: 80105befdb4b8cea924711b40b2462b87df65b62 , < 8e81ce7d0166a2249deb6d5e42f28a8b8c9ea72f (git)
Affected: 80105befdb4b8cea924711b40b2462b87df65b62 , < 31701ef0c4547973991ff63596c927f841dfd133 (git)
Affected: 80105befdb4b8cea924711b40b2462b87df65b62 , < b6321146773dcbbc372a54dbada67e0b50e0a25c (git)
Affected: 80105befdb4b8cea924711b40b2462b87df65b62 , < 5febfc545389805ce83d37f9f4317055b26dd7d7 (git)
Affected: 80105befdb4b8cea924711b40b2462b87df65b62 , < 533d2f30aef272dade17870a509521c3afc38a03 (git)
Affected: 80105befdb4b8cea924711b40b2462b87df65b62 , < 4b70478b984af3c9d0279c121df5ff94e2533dbd (git)
Affected: 80105befdb4b8cea924711b40b2462b87df65b62 , < 7d5030a819c3589cf9948b1eee397b626ec590f5 (git)
Affected: 80105befdb4b8cea924711b40b2462b87df65b62 , < c401ed1c709948e57945485088413e1bb5e94bd1 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 3.16
Unaffected: 0 , < 3.16 (semver)
Unaffected: 4.19.323 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.285 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.229 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.170 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.115 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.59 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.11.6 , ≤ 6.11.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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