CVE-2024-50170: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: bcmasp: fix potential memory leak in bcmasp_xmit() The bcmasp_xmit() returns NETDEV_TX_OK without freeing skb in case of mapping fails, add dev_kfree_skb() to fix it.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 6.6, 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 2026-08-04.