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smb: client: Handle kstrdup failures for passwords
Type: advisorySources: OSV
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: Handle kstrdup failures for passwords In smb3_reconfigure(), after duplicating ctx->password and ctx->password2 with kstrdup(), we need to check for allocation failures. If ses->password allocation fails, return -ENOMEM. If ses->password2 allocation fails, free ses->password, set it to NULL, and return -ENOMEM.
- Products
- Kernel
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 6.11.6, 6.6.59
- CVEs
- CVE-2024-50120
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 3 Nov 2026, 08:14 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
smb: client: Handle kstrdup failures for passwords
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 5 Nov 2024, 17:10 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: smb: client: Handle kstrdup failures for passwords In smb3_reconfigure(), after duplicating ctx->password and ctx->password2 with kstrdup(), we need to check for allocation failures. If ses->password allocation fails, return -ENOMEM. If ses->password2 allocation fails, free ses->password, set it to NULL, and return -ENOMEM.
osv:CVE-2024-50120
Kernel
Fixed versions: 6.6.59, 6.11.6
Complete source record
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