CVE-2024-50285: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: check outstanding simultaneous SMB operations If Client send simultaneous SMB operations to ksmbd, It exhausts too much memory through the "ksmbd_work_cache”. It will cause OOM issue. ksmbd has a credit mechanism but it can't handle this problem. This patch add the check if it exceeds max credits to prevent this problem by assuming that one smb request consumes at least one credit.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: before 6.6.61 (fixed in 6.6.61); from 6.7, before 6.11.8 (fixed in 6.11.8); version 6.12 only

Published 2024-11-19. Last modified 2026-08-04.