CVE-2024-46686: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb/client: avoid dereferencing rdata=NULL in smb2_new_read_req() This happens when called from SMB2_read() while using rdma and reaching the rdma_readwrite_threshold.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 6.1.16, before 6.1.108 (fixed in 6.1.108); from 6.3, before 6.6.49 (fixed in 6.6.49); from 6.7, before 6.10.8 (fixed in 6.10.8); version 6.2.3 only; version 6.11 only

Published 2024-09-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.