CVE-2024-50264 Information

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.

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5f092a4271f6dccf88fe0d132475a17b69ef71df https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fd8ae346692a56b4437d626c5460c7104980f389 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eb1bdcb7dfc30b24495ee4c5533af0ed135cb5f1 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2a6a4e69f255b7aed17f93995691ab4f0d3c2203 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/44d29897eafd0e1196453d3003a4d5e0b968eeab https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b110196fec44fe966952004bd426967c2a8fd358 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5f970935d09934222fdef3d0e20c648ea7a963c1 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6ca575374dd9a507cdd16dfa0e78c2e9e20bd05f