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Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Nov 5, 2024· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2024-50120

CVE-2024-50120

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

smb: client: Handle kstrdup failures for passwords

In smb3_reconfigure(), after duplicating ctx->password and ctx->password2 with kstrdup(), we need to check for allocation failures.

If ses->password allocation fails, return -ENOMEM. If ses->password2 allocation fails, free ses->password, set it to NULL, and return -ENOMEM.

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Affected products

16

Linux/Kernel6 versions
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 5 more
- cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: >=6.6.24,<6.6.59
- cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.12:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.12:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.12:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.12:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*
- (no CPE)
osv-coords10 versions
pkg:deb/ubuntu/linux@6.11.0-18.18?arch=source&distro=oracular pkg:deb/ubuntu/linux-aws@6.11.0-1009.10?arch=source&distro=oracular pkg:deb/ubuntu/linux-azure@6.11.0-1009.9?arch=source&distro=oracular pkg:deb/ubuntu/linux-gcp@6.11.0-1009.9?arch=source&distro=oracular pkg:deb/ubuntu/linux-lowlatency@6.11.0-1010.11?arch=source&distro=oracular pkg:deb/ubuntu/linux-oracle@6.11.0-1011.12?arch=source&distro=oracular pkg:deb/ubuntu/linux-raspi@6.11.0-1008.8?arch=source&distro=oracular pkg:deb/ubuntu/linux-realtime@6.11.0-1005.5?arch=source&distro=oracular pkg:rpm/opensuse/kernel-source&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed pkg:rpm/opensuse/kernel-source-longterm&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed
< 6.11.0-18.18+ 9 more
- (no CPE)range: < 6.11.0-18.18
- (no CPE)range: < 6.11.0-1009.10
- (no CPE)range: < 6.11.0-1009.9
- (no CPE)range: < 6.11.0-1009.9
- (no CPE)range: < 6.11.0-1010.11
- (no CPE)range: < 6.11.0-1011.12
- (no CPE)range: < 6.11.0-1008.8
- (no CPE)range: < 6.11.0-1005.5
- (no CPE)range: < 6.11.8-1.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.12.11-1.1

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