CVE-2024-50167

be2net: fix potential memory leak in be_xmit()

Medium · published November 7, 2024

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
16.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00254 · 16.0th percentile
Published
2024-11-07T09:31Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 07 NOV 09:31Z
    be2net: fix potential memory leak in be_xmit()
    cvelistv5