5.5

CVE-2024-50120: linux

CVSS: 5.5v3.1MediumAnalyzed
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50120DEBIAN-CVE-2024-50120
Published 05-11-2024Last modified 23-05-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-50120 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.22% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 11.2% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
22/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
5.5/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.22%
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 15 · Related 14
MGASA-2024-0368MGASA-2024-0369OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14500-1OPENSUSE-SU-2025:14705-1RHSA-2025:6966USN-7310-1

Timeline

  1. 05-11-2024
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 23-05-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.22%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

11%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.22% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.22%

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

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Ubuntu106 products
  • linux< 6.8.0-58.60
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws< 6.8.0-1027.29
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Linux2 products
  • linux≥ 7e8cffa4f85e6839335d75e6b47f918d90c1d194, < 35dbac8c328d6afe937cd45ecd41d209d0b9f8b8 | ≥ c1eb537bf4560b3ad4df606c266c665624f3b502, < 35488799b0ab6e4327f82e1d9209a60805665b37 | ≥ c1eb537bf4560b3ad4df606c266c665624f3b502, < 9a5dd61151399ad5a5d69aad28ab164734c1e3bc | e78308a6dcab1e53b38b8dd952e69c515cd324d7 | 2a0fc63f1f4fccfeb367d0c57b8a243cec60c26c | ≥ 6.6.24, < 6.6.59 | ≥ 6.7.12, < 6.8 | ≥ 6.8.3, < 6.9 | 6.9
  • linux_kernel≥ 6.6.24, < 6.6.59 | ≥ 6.7.12, < 6.8 | ≥ 6.8.3, < 6.11.6 | 6.12:rc1 | 6.12:rc2 | 6.12:rc3 | 6.12:rc4
Debian1 product
  • linux< 6.11.6-1

3 vendors · 109 products

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