Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Nov 7, 2024· Updated Nov 3, 2025
net/sun3_82586: fix potential memory leak in sun3_82586_send_packet()
CVE-2024-50168
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/sun3_82586: fix potential memory leak in sun3_82586_send_packet()
The sun3_82586_send_packet() returns NETDEV_TX_OK without freeing skb in case of skb->len being too long, add dev_kfree_skb() to fix it.
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Affected products
12- osv-coords10 versionspkg:deb/ubuntu/linux@6.11.0-18.18?arch=source&distro=oracularpkg:deb/ubuntu/linux-aws@6.11.0-1009.10?arch=source&distro=oracularpkg:deb/ubuntu/linux-azure@6.11.0-1009.9?arch=source&distro=oracularpkg:deb/ubuntu/linux-gcp@6.11.0-1009.9?arch=source&distro=oracularpkg:deb/ubuntu/linux-lowlatency@6.11.0-1010.11?arch=source&distro=oracularpkg:deb/ubuntu/linux-oracle@6.11.0-1011.12?arch=source&distro=oracularpkg:deb/ubuntu/linux-raspi@6.11.0-1008.8?arch=source&distro=oracularpkg:deb/ubuntu/linux-realtime@6.11.0-1005.5?arch=source&distro=oracularpkg:rpm/opensuse/kernel-source&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg: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
Patches
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References
8- git.kernel.org/stable/c/137010d26dc5cd47cd62fef77cbe952d31951b7amitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/1a17a4ac2d57102497fac53b53c666dba6a0c20dmitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/2cb3f56e827abb22c4168ad0c1bbbf401bb2f3b8mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/6dc937a3086e344f965ca5c459f8f3eb6b68d890mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/84f2bac74000dbb7a177d9b98a17031ec8d07ec5mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/8d5b20fbc548650019afa96822b6a33ea4ec8aa5mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/9c6ce55e6f0bd1541f112833006b4052614c7d94mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/db755e55349045375c5c7036e8650afb3ff419d8mitre
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