SUSE SLES15 kernel update addresses CVE-2024-50264 vulnerability in Live Patch 33 for SLE 15 SP4.
Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 199 |
---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | CVE-2024-50264 | 21 Nov 202419:15 | – | redhatcve |
![]() | CVE-2024-50264 | 19 Nov 202402:16 | – | debiancve |
![]() | CVE-2024-50264 vsock/virtio: Initialization of the dangling pointer occurring in vsk->trans | 19 Nov 202401:29 | – | vulnrichment |
![]() | UBUNTU-CVE-2024-50264 | 19 Nov 202402:16 | – | osv |
![]() | CVE-2024-50264 | 19 Nov 202402:16 | – | osv |
![]() | Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 0 for SLE 15 SP6) | 17 Jan 202519:33 | – | osv |
![]() | Security update for the Linux Kernel RT (Live Patch 0 for SLE 15 SP6) | 14 Jan 202503:33 | – | osv |
![]() | Security update for the Linux Kernel RT (Live Patch 2 for SLE 15 SP6) | 14 Jan 202503:33 | – | osv |
![]() | Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 9 for SLE 15 SP5) | 14 Jan 202521:34 | – | osv |
![]() | Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 22 for SLE 15 SP4) | 14 Jan 202519:04 | – | osv |
Source | Link |
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nessus | www.nessus.org/u |
suse | www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-50264 |
bugzilla | www.bugzilla.suse.com/1233712 |
cve | www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi |
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The following security issue was fixed:
- CVE-2024-50264: vsock/virtio: Initialization of the dangling pointer occurring in vsk->trans
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Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.
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