5.5

CVE-2024-50168: linux

CVSS: 5.5v3.1MediumModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50168DEBIAN-CVE-2024-50168
Published 07-11-2024Last modified 11-05-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-50168 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.22% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 11.8% 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
0.22%
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 29 · Related 28
DLA-4008-1MGASA-2024-0368MGASA-2024-0369OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14500-1OPENSUSE-SU-2025:14705-1USN-7288-1

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: net/sun3_82586: fix potential memory leak in sun3_82586_send_packet() The sun3_82586_send_packet() returns NETDEV_TX_OK without freeing skb in case of skb->len being too long, add dev_kfree_skb() to fix it.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.22%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

12%

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

Affected systems

Ubuntu116 products
  • linux< 5.4.0-208.228 | < 5.15.0-133.144
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws< 5.4.0-1140.150 | < 5.15.0-1078.85
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Linux2 products
  • linux≥ 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2, < 137010d26dc5cd47cd62fef77cbe952d31951b7a | ≥ 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2, < 8d5b20fbc548650019afa96822b6a33ea4ec8aa5 | ≥ 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2, < db755e55349045375c5c7036e8650afb3ff419d8 | ≥ 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2, < 9c6ce55e6f0bd1541f112833006b4052614c7d94 | ≥ 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2, < 1a17a4ac2d57102497fac53b53c666dba6a0c20d | ≥ 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2, < 6dc937a3086e344f965ca5c459f8f3eb6b68d890 | ≥ 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2, < 84f2bac74000dbb7a177d9b98a17031ec8d07ec5 | ≥ 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2, < 2cb3f56e827abb22c4168ad0c1bbbf401bb2f3b8 | 2.6.12
  • linux_kernel≥ 2.6.12, < 4.19.323 | ≥ 4.20, < 5.4.285 | ≥ 5.5, < 5.10.229 | ≥ 5.11, < 5.15.170 | ≥ 5.16, < 6.1.115 | ≥ 6.2, < 6.6.59 | ≥ 6.7, < 6.11.6 | 6.12:rc1 | 6.12:rc2 | 6.12:rc3 | 6.12:rc4
Debian1 product
  • linux< 6.1.115-1 | < 6.11.6-1

3 vendors · 119 products

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