Use After Free Affecting kernel-modules package, versions *
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL8-KERNELMODULES-8405254
- published 26 Nov 2024
- disclosed 19 Nov 2024
Introduced: 19 Nov 2024
New CVE-2024-50264 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for RHEL:8 kernel-modules.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-modules package and not the kernel-modules package as distributed by RHEL.
See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
vsock/virtio: Initialization of the dangling pointer occurring in vsk->trans
During loopback communication, a dangling pointer can be created in vsk->trans, potentially leading to a Use-After-Free condition. This issue is resolved by initializing vsk->trans to NULL.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-50264
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2a6a4e69f255b7aed17f93995691ab4f0d3c2203
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/44d29897eafd0e1196453d3003a4d5e0b968eeab
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5f092a4271f6dccf88fe0d132475a17b69ef71df
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5f970935d09934222fdef3d0e20c648ea7a963c1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6ca575374dd9a507cdd16dfa0e78c2e9e20bd05f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b110196fec44fe966952004bd426967c2a8fd358
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eb1bdcb7dfc30b24495ee4c5533af0ed135cb5f1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fd8ae346692a56b4437d626c5460c7104980f389