5.5

CVE-2024-50166: linux

CVSS: 5.5v3.1MediumModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50166DEBIAN-CVE-2024-50166
Published 07-11-2024Last modified 11-05-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-50166 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.21% 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 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.21%
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 26 · Related 26
MGASA-2024-0368MGASA-2024-0369OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14500-1OPENSUSE-SU-2025:14705-1SUSE-SU-2024:4314-1SUSE-SU-2024:4316-1

Timeline

  1. 07-11-2024
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 11-05-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fsl/fman: Fix refcount handling of fman-related devices In mac_probe() there are multiple calls to of_find_device_by_node(), fman_bind() and fman_port_bind() which takes references to of_dev->dev. Not all references taken by these calls are released later on error path in mac_probe() and in mac_remove() which lead to reference leaks. Add references release.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.21%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

11%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.21% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.21%

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

Ubuntu134 products
  • linuxAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 6.8.0-58.60
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-awsAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 6.8.0-1027.29
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Linux2 products
  • linux≥ 3933961682a30ae7d405cda344c040a129fea422, < 5ed4334fc9512f934fe2ae9c4cf7f8142e451b8b | ≥ 3933961682a30ae7d405cda344c040a129fea422, < 3c2a3619d565fe16bf59b0a047bab103a2ee4490 | ≥ 3933961682a30ae7d405cda344c040a129fea422, < 1dec67e0d9fbb087c2ab17bf1bd17208231c3bb1 | 4.5
  • linux_kernel≥ 4.5, < 6.6.59 | ≥ 6.7, < 6.11.6 | 6.12:rc1 | 6.12:rc2 | 6.12:rc3 | 6.12:rc4
Debian1 product
  • linuxAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 6.11.6-1

3 vendors · 137 products

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