CVE-2024-50024

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

21/10/2024

Last modified:

03/11/2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: Fix an unsafe loop on the list The kernel may crash when deleting a genetlink family if there are still listeners for that family: Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1] ... NIP [c000000000c080bc] netlink_update_socket_mc+0x3c/0xc0 LR [c000000000c0f764] __netlink_clear_multicast_users+0x74/0xc0 Call Trace: __netlink_clear_multicast_users+0x74/0xc0 genl_unregister_family+0xd4/0x2d0 Change the unsafe loop on the list to a safe one, because inside the loop there is an element removal from this list.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.50 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

5.50

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	2.6.32 (including)	5.10.227 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.11 (including)	5.15.168 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	5.16 (including)	6.1.113 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.2 (including)	6.6.57 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::	6.7 (including)	6.11.4 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.12:rc1::::::
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.12:rc2::::::

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CVE-2024-50024

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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