CVE-2024-50167: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: be2net: fix potential memory leak in be_xmit() The be_xmit() returns NETDEV_TX_OK without freeing skb in case of be_xmit_enqueue() fails, add dev_kfree_skb_any() to fix it.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 4.2, before 4.19.323 (fixed in 4.19.323); from 4.20, before 5.4.285 (fixed in 5.4.285); from 5.5, before 5.10.229 (fixed in 5.10.229); from 5.11, before 5.15.170 (fixed in 5.15.170); from 5.16, before 6.1.115 (fixed in 6.1.115); from 6.2, before 6.6.59 (fixed in 6.6.59); …

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