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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Nov 7, 2024· Updated Nov 3, 2025

net: systemport: fix potential memory leak in bcm_sysport_xmit()

CVE-2024-50171

Description

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

net: systemport: fix potential memory leak in bcm_sysport_xmit()

The bcm_sysport_xmit() returns NETDEV_TX_OK without freeing skb in case of dma_map_single() fails, add dev_kfree_skb() to fix it.

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