vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2024-50264: linux, linux-6.1 -- security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
2024-11-19
Added
2024-12-02
Modified
2025-03-03

Description

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.

Solution(s)

debian-upgrade-linuxdebian-upgrade-linux-6-1
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