{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2024-11-07T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: vsock: Update rx_bytes on read_skb()",
    "id" : "2324410",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2324410"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "5.5",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-119",
  "details" : [ "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\nvsock: Update rx_bytes on read_skb()\nMake sure virtio_transport_inc_rx_pkt() and virtio_transport_dec_rx_pkt()\ncalls are balanced (i.e. virtio_vsock_sock::rx_bytes doesn't lie) after\nvsock_transport::read_skb().\nWhile here, also inform the peer that we've freed up space and it has more\ncredit.\nFailing to update rx_bytes after packet is dequeued leads to a warning on\nSOCK_STREAM recv():\n[  233.396654] rx_queue is empty, but rx_bytes is non-zero\n[  233.396702] WARNING: CPU: 11 PID: 40601 at net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport_common.c:589" ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "release_date" : "2025-05-13T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2025:6966",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9",
    "package" : "kernel-0:5.14.0-570.12.1.el9_6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "release_date" : "2025-05-13T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2025:6966",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9",
    "package" : "kernel-0:5.14.0-570.12.1.el9_6"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "kernel-rt",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-50169\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-50169\nhttps://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024110749-CVE-2024-50169-9df5@gregkh/T" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2024-50169",
  "csaw" : false
}