5.5

CVE-2024-50068: linux

CVSS: 5.5v3.1MediumModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50068DEBIAN-CVE-2024-50068
Published 29-10-2024Last modified 11-05-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-50068 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 7% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
22/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
5.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.18%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 14 · Related 16
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14500-1OPENSUSE-SU-2025:14705-1USN-7310-1USN-7383-1USN-7383-2USN-7384-1

Timeline

  1. 29-10-2024
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 11-05-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/damon/tests/sysfs-kunit.h: fix memory leak in damon_sysfs_test_add_targets() The sysfs_target->regions allocated in damon_sysfs_regions_alloc() is not freed in damon_sysfs_test_add_targets(), which cause the following memory leak, free it to fix it. unreferenced object 0xffffff80c2a8db80 (size 96): comm "kunit_try_catch", pid 187, jiffies 4294894363 hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace (crc 0): [<0000000001e3714d>] kmemleak_alloc+0x34/0x40 [<000000008e6835c1>] __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x26c/0x2f4 [<000000001286d9f8>] damon_sysfs_test_add_targets+0x1cc/0x738 [<0000000032ef8f77>] kunit_try_run_case+0x13c/0x3ac [<00000000f3edea23>] kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x80/0xec [<00000000adf936cf>] kthread+0x2e8/0x374 [<0000000041bb1628>] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.18%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

7%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.18% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.18%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Ubuntu103 products
  • linux< 6.8.0-56.58
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws< 6.8.0-1025.27
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Linux2 products
  • linux≥ b8ee5575f763c239902f8523d82103a45c153b29, < 05d43455f6bffa6abc7b937ca58be00452e6973f | ≥ b8ee5575f763c239902f8523d82103a45c153b29, < 2d6a1c835685de3b0c8e8dc871f60f4ef92ab01a | 6.7
  • linux_kernel≥ 6.7, < 6.11.5 | 6.12:rc1 | 6.12:rc2 | 6.12:rc3
Debian1 product
  • linux< 6.11.5-1

3 vendors · 106 products

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