# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-50087"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-10-29T00:50:30.313Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T11:41:32.766Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:20.494Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-50087"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-50087.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-50087"
title: "btrfs: fix uninitialized pointer free on read_alloc_one_name() error"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbtrfs: fix uninitialized pointer free on read_alloc_one_name() error\n\nThe function read_alloc_one_name() does not initialize the name field of\nthe passed fscrypt_str struct if kmalloc fails to allocate the\ncorresponding buffer.  Thus, it is not guaranteed that\nfscrypt_str.name is initialized when freeing it.\n\nThis is a follow-up to the linked patch that fixes the remaining\ninstances of the bug introduced by commit e43eec81c516 (\"btrfs: use\nstruct qstr instead of name and namelen pairs\")."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1cf474cd474bc5d3ef63086ffd009a87a5b7bb2e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b37de9491f140a0ff125c27dd1050185c3accbc1"},{"version":"e43eec81c5167b655b72c781b0e75e62a05e415e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7fc7c47b9ba0cf2d192f2117a64b24881b0b577f"},{"version":"e43eec81c5167b655b72c781b0e75e62a05e415e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1ec28de5e476913ae51f909660b4447eddb28838"},{"version":"e43eec81c5167b655b72c781b0e75e62a05e415e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2ab5e243c2266c841e0f6904fad1514b18eaf510"},{"version":"6.1.57","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1.114"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.2","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.2"},{"version":"6.1.114","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.58","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.11.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.11.*"},{"version":"6.12","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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