Security Advisory

CVE-2024-50264

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2024-11-19 01:29:59
Last updated 2026-05-11 20:48:45
Assigner Linux
State PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vsock/virtio: Initialization of the dangling pointer occurring in vsk->trans During loopback communication, a dangling pointer can be created in vsk->trans, potentially leading to a Use-After-Free condition. This issue is resolved by initializing vsk->trans to NULL.