CVE-2024-50277

Published: Nov 19, 2024

Modified: May 11, 2026

PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dm: fix a crash if blk_alloc_disk fails If blk_alloc_disk fails, the variable md->disk is set to an error value. cleanup_mapped_device will see that md->disk is non-NULL and it will attempt to access it, causing a crash on this statement "md->disk->private_data = NULL;".

Vendor	Product	Versions
Linux	Linux	affected `74fa8f9c553f7b5ccab7d103acae63cc2e080465 - < d7aec2a06730b774a97caaf48cbbc58330a85829` affected `74fa8f9c553f7b5ccab7d103acae63cc2e080465 - < fed13a5478680614ba97fc87e71f16e2e197912e`
Linux	Linux	affected `6.9` unaffected `0 - < 6.9` unaffected `6.11.8 - <= 6.11.` unaffected `6.12 - <= `

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d7aec2a06730b774a97caaf48cbbc58330a85829

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fed13a5478680614ba97fc87e71f16e2e197912e

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CVE-2024-50277

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