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CVE-2024-50277
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.7
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2024-11-19T02:16:30.013 · Last modified 2026-06-17T08:04:05.020

Summary

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;".

Affected products

linux — linux_kernel

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References

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