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Medium severity4.7NVD Advisory· Published Nov 19, 2024· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2024-50277

CVE-2024-50277

Description

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

dm: fix a crash if blk_alloc_disk fails

If blk_alloc_disk fails, the variable md->disk is set to an error value. cleanup_mapped_device will see that md->disk is non-NULL and it will attempt to access it, causing a crash on this statement "md->disk->private_data = NULL;".

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