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Tracker / CVE-2024-50264

CVE-2024-50264

High 7.8

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vsock/virtio: Initialization of the dangling pointer occurring in vsk->trans During loopback communication, a dangling pointer can be created in vsk->trans, potentially leading to a Use-After-Free condition. This issue is resolved by initializing vsk->trans to NULL.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · 4.20 → 5.4.286
linux linux_kernel · 4.8 → 4.19.324
linux linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.15.172
linux linux_kernel · 5.16 → 6.1.117
linux linux_kernel · 5.5 → 5.10.230
linux linux_kernel · 6.2 → 6.6.61
linux linux_kernel · 6.7 → 6.11.8

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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