CVE-2024-50166: 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: fsl/fman: Fix refcount handling of fman-related devices In mac_probe() there are multiple calls to of_find_device_by_node(), fman_bind() and fman_port_bind() which takes references to of_dev->dev. Not all references taken by these calls are released later on error path in mac_probe() and in mac_remove() which lead to reference leaks. Add references release.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 4.5, before 6.6.59 (fixed in 6.6.59); from 6.7, before 6.11.6 (fixed in 6.11.6); version 6.12 only

Published 2024-11-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.