CVE-2024-50166 fsl/fman: Fix refcount handling of fman-related devices

What is CVE-2024-50166?

CVE-2024-50166 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 7 Nov 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:

fsl/fman: Fix refcount handling of fman-related devices

In mac_probe() there are multiple calls to of_find_device_by_node(), fman_bind() and fman_port_bind() which takes references to of_dev->dev. Not all references taken by these calls are released later on error path in mac_probe() and in mac_remove() which lead to reference leaks.

Add references release.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-50166?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2024-50166?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2024-50166 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-50166 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as AZL-53483, AZL-53793, BELL-CVE-2024-50166, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-50166, GHSA-7gcx-746w-6vr2, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2024-50166 and 3 more.