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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Nov 19, 2024· Updated Oct 1, 2025

ksmbd: check outstanding simultaneous SMB operations

CVE-2024-50285

Description

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

ksmbd: check outstanding simultaneous SMB operations

If Client send simultaneous SMB operations to ksmbd, It exhausts too much memory through the "ksmbd_work_cache”. It will cause OOM issue. ksmbd has a credit mechanism but it can't handle this problem. This patch add the check if it exceeds max credits to prevent this problem by assuming that one smb request consumes at least one credit.

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