CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-50264

7.8 HIGH Published 2024-11-19 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2024-11-19
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-416

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vsock/virtio: Initialization of the dangling pointer occurring in vsk->trans During loopback communication, a dangling pointer can be created in vsk->trans, potentially leading to a Use-After-Free condition. This issue is resolved by initializing vsk->trans to NULL.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 4.8 < 4.19.324) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 5.4.286) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.230) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.172) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.117) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.61) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.11.8) • linux linux kernel 6.12

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

References