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.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-50013

CVSS Base Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS Base Score: 5.5

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.04% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 10.17% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-06-02 (when was this score calculated)

Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC)

SSVC Exploitation: none

SSVC Technical Impact: partial

SSVC Automatable: false

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-50013
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f692160d3e1e5450605071b8df8f7d08d9b09a83
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ddf704c2ce3b73f38d2dd8cf1bb0f7ec038bdf63
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4e1813e52f86eb8db0c6c9570251f2fcbc571f5d
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bf0b3b35259475d1fe377bcaa565488e26684f7a
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dca359db1eb37f334267ebd7e3cab9a66d191d5b
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/89081e8407e637463db5880d168e3652fb9f4330
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d2b537b3e533f28e0d97293fe9293161fe8cd137

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