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CVE-2024-50264 (GCVE-0-2024-50264)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-11-19 01:29 – Updated: 2026-08-05 11:42
VLAI
Title
vsock/virtio: Initialization of the dangling pointer occurring in vsk->trans
Summary
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.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-12-11 14:48 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 06a8fc78367d070720af960dcecec917d3ae5f3b , < 5f092a4271f6dccf88fe0d132475a17b69ef71df (git)
Affected: 06a8fc78367d070720af960dcecec917d3ae5f3b , < fd8ae346692a56b4437d626c5460c7104980f389 (git)
Affected: 06a8fc78367d070720af960dcecec917d3ae5f3b , < eb1bdcb7dfc30b24495ee4c5533af0ed135cb5f1 (git)
Affected: 06a8fc78367d070720af960dcecec917d3ae5f3b , < 2a6a4e69f255b7aed17f93995691ab4f0d3c2203 (git)
Affected: 06a8fc78367d070720af960dcecec917d3ae5f3b , < 44d29897eafd0e1196453d3003a4d5e0b968eeab (git)
Affected: 06a8fc78367d070720af960dcecec917d3ae5f3b , < b110196fec44fe966952004bd426967c2a8fd358 (git)
Affected: 06a8fc78367d070720af960dcecec917d3ae5f3b , < 5f970935d09934222fdef3d0e20c648ea7a963c1 (git)
Affected: 06a8fc78367d070720af960dcecec917d3ae5f3b , < 6ca575374dd9a507cdd16dfa0e78c2e9e20bd05f (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.8
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.8 (semver)
Unaffected: 4.19.324 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.286 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.230 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.172 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.117 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.61 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.11.8 , ≤ 6.11.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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