CVE-2024-50013 exfat: fix memory leak in exfat_load_bitmap()

What is CVE-2024-50013?

CVE-2024-50013 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 21 Oct 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

exfat: fix memory leak in exfat_load_bitmap()

If the first directory entry in the root directory is not a bitmap directory entry, 'bh' will not be released and reassigned, which will cause a memory leak.

Weakness: CWE-401

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-50013?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2024-50013?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2024-50013 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-50013 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2013-2094 Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation Exploited High 8.4
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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as AZL-51336, BELL-CVE-2024-50013, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-50013, GHSA-5g6f-mmx7-rp64, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50013.