CVE-2024-50264

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-50264
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-50264.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2024-50264
Aliases
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Published
2024-11-19T02:16:28Z
Modified
2025-08-09T20:01:26Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages