CVE-2024-50172: 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: RDMA/bnxt_re: Fix a possible memory leak In bnxt_re_setup_chip_ctx() when bnxt_qplib_map_db_bar() fails driver is not freeing the memory allocated for "rdev->chip_ctx".

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 6.5, 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.