CVE-2024-50285

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel < 6.6.61 - Denial of Service via SMB Operation Memory Exhaustion

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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 can't 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.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0026
EPSS Percentile 17.1%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-770
Status published
Products (12)
linux/Kernel 5.15.0 - 6.6.61linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.11.8linux
Linux/Linux < 5.15
Linux/Linux 0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf - 0a77d947f599b1f39065015bec99390d0c0022ee
Linux/Linux 0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf - 1f993777275cbd8f74765c4f9d9285cb907c9be5
Linux/Linux 0626e6641f6b467447c81dd7678a69c66f7746cf - e257ac6fe138623cf59fca8898abdf659dbc8356
Linux/Linux 5.15
Linux/Linux 6.11.8 - 6.11.*
Linux/Linux 6.12
Linux/Linux 6.6.61 - 6.6.*
... and 2 more
Published Nov 19, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026