5.5

CVE-2024-50236: linux

CVSS: 5.5v3.1MediumModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2024-50236DEBIAN-CVE-2024-50236
Published 09-11-2024Last modified 11-05-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-50236 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.26% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 16.7% 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
0.26%
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 56 · Related 52
DLA-4008-1DLA-4075-1DSA-5818-1MGASA-2024-0368MGASA-2024-0369OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14500-1

Timeline

  1. 09-11-2024
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 11-05-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: ath10k: Fix memory leak in management tx In the current logic, memory is allocated for storing the MSDU context during management packet TX but this memory is not being freed during management TX completion. Similar leaks are seen in the management TX cleanup logic. Kmemleak reports this problem as below, unreferenced object 0xffffff80b64ed250 (size 16): comm "kworker/u16:7", pid 148, jiffies 4294687130 (age 714.199s) hex dump (first 16 bytes): 00 2b d8 d8 80 ff ff ff c4 74 e9 fd 07 00 00 00 .+.......t...... backtrace: [<ffffffe6e7b245dc>] __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x1e4/0x2d8 [<ffffffe6e7adde88>] kmalloc_trace+0x48/0x110 [<ffffffe6bbd765fc>] ath10k_wmi_tlv_op_gen_mgmt_tx_send+0xd4/0x1d8 [ath10k_core] [<ffffffe6bbd3eed4>] ath10k_mgmt_over_wmi_tx_work+0x134/0x298 [ath10k_core] [<ffffffe6e78d5974>] process_scheduled_works+0x1ac/0x400 [<ffffffe6e78d60b8>] worker_thread+0x208/0x328 [<ffffffe6e78dc890>] kthread+0x100/0x1c0 [<ffffffe6e78166c0>] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 Free the memory during completion and cleanup to fix the leak. Protect the mgmt_pending_tx idr_remove() operation in ath10k_wmi_tlv_op_cleanup_mgmt_tx_send() using ar->data_lock similar to other instances. Tested-on: WCN3990 hw1.0 SNOC WLAN.HL.2.0-01387-QCAHLSWMTPLZ-1

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.26%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

17%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.26% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.26%

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

Ubuntu130 products
  • linux< 5.4.0-208.228 | < 5.15.0-133.144 | < 6.8.0-58.60
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws< 5.4.0-1140.150 | < 5.15.0-1078.85 | < 6.8.0-1027.29
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Linux2 products
  • linux≥ dc405152bb64d4ae01c9ac669de25b2d1fb6fc2d, < eff818238bedb9c2484c251ec46f9f160911cdc0 | ≥ dc405152bb64d4ae01c9ac669de25b2d1fb6fc2d, < 6fc9af3df6ca7f3c94774d20f62dc7b49616026d | ≥ dc405152bb64d4ae01c9ac669de25b2d1fb6fc2d, < 4112450da7d67b59ccedc2208bae622db17dbcb8 | ≥ dc405152bb64d4ae01c9ac669de25b2d1fb6fc2d, < 705be2dc45c7f852e211e16bc41a916fab741983 | ≥ dc405152bb64d4ae01c9ac669de25b2d1fb6fc2d, < 6cc23898e6ba47e976050d3c080b4d2c1add3748 | ≥ dc405152bb64d4ae01c9ac669de25b2d1fb6fc2d, < 5f5a939759c79e7385946c85e62feca51a18d816 | ≥ dc405152bb64d4ae01c9ac669de25b2d1fb6fc2d, < 2f6f1e26ac6d2b38e2198a71f81f0ade14d6b07b | ≥ dc405152bb64d4ae01c9ac669de25b2d1fb6fc2d, < e15d84b3bba187aa372dff7c58ce1fd5cb48a076 | 4.19
  • linux_kernel≥ 4.19, < 4.19.323 | ≥ 4.20, < 5.4.285 | ≥ 5.5, < 5.10.229 | ≥ 5.11, < 5.15.171 | ≥ 5.16, < 6.1.116 | ≥ 6.2, < 6.6.60 | ≥ 6.7, < 6.11.7 | 6.12:rc1 | 6.12:rc2 | 6.12:rc3 | 6.12:rc4 | 6.12:rc5
Debian1 product
  • linux< 6.1.119-1 | < 6.11.7-1

3 vendors · 133 products

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