CVE-2024-53117

Published: Dec 2, 2024Modified: Oct 1, 2025

5.5

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Exploitability: 1.8 / Impact: 3.6

Source: NVD

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: virtio/vsock: Improve MSG_ZEROCOPY error handling Add a missing kfree_skb() to prevent memory leaks.

Affected (8)

Products: Linux: Linux Kernel

Linux

1 product

Linux Kernel

Configuration A

8 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Linux Linux Kernel	From 6.7 to 6.11.10
Linux Linux Kernel	Version 6.12 rc1
Linux Linux Kernel	Version 6.12 rc2
Linux Linux Kernel	Version 6.12 rc3
Linux Linux Kernel	Version 6.12 rc4
Linux Linux Kernel	Version 6.12 rc5
Linux Linux Kernel	Version 6.12 rc6
Linux Linux Kernel	Version 6.12 rc7

Related CWEs

CWE-401

Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, which slowly consumes remaining memory.

References (2)

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/50061d7319e21165d04e3024354c1b43b6137821

Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

Patch

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/60cf6206a1f513512f5d73fa4d3dbbcad2e7dcd6

Source: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

Patch

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