CVE-2024-50120 - CVE House
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Status published Unknown CVE-2024-50120

smb: client: Handle kstrdup failures for passwords

Vulnerability Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: Handle kstrdup failures for passwords In smb3_reconfigure(), after duplicating ctx->password and ctx->password2 with kstrdup(), we need to check for allocation failures. If ses->password allocation fails, return -ENOMEM. If ses->password2 allocation fails, free ses->password, set it to NULL, and return -ENOMEM.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Linux
Vulnerable Versions:
7e8cffa4f85e6839335d75e6b47f918d90c1d194, c1eb537bf4560b3ad4df606c266c665624f3b502, e78308a6dcab1e53b38b8dd952e69c515cd324d7, 2a0fc63f1f4fccfeb367d0c57b8a243cec60c26c, 6.6.24, 6.7.12, 6.8.3, 6.9, 0, 6.6.59, 6.11.6, 6.12

Timeline

Official Publish: November 5th, 2024
Last Modified: May 23rd, 2026
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

No vector data available

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

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