New patch to prevent OOM issue in ksmbd due to simultaneous SMB operations

CVE-2024-50285
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Key Information

Vendor
Linux
Vendor
CVE Published:
19 November 2024

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ksmbd: check outstanding simultaneous SMB operations If Client send simultaneous SMB operations to ksmbd, It exhausts too much memory through the "ksmbd_work_cache”. It will cause OOM issue. ksmbd has a credit mechanism but it can't handle this problem. This patch add the check if it exceeds max credits to prevent this problem by assuming that one smb request consumes at least one credit.

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published.

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