CyberRota Analysis
This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.5. It affects Linux.
CVE
CVE-2024-50120
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5.5
EPSS
0.21%
Linux
Original NVD Description
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.
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