Security Advisory

CVE-2024-50285

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2024-11-19 01:30:28
Last updated 2026-05-11 20:49:11
Assigner Linux
State PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: check outstanding simultaneous SMB operations If Client send simultaneous SMB operations to ksmbd, It exhausts too much memory through the "ksmbd_work_cache”. It will cause OOM issue. ksmbd has a credit mechanism but it cant handle this problem. This patch add the check if it exceeds max credits to prevent this problem by assuming that one smb request consumes at least one credit.