# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-50120"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-11-05T17:10:49.887Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-23T15:54:32.067Z"
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-2024-50120"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-50120.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-50120"
title: "smb: client: Handle kstrdup failures for passwords"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsmb: client: Handle kstrdup failures for passwords\n\nIn smb3_reconfigure(), after duplicating ctx-\u003epassword and\nctx-\u003epassword2 with kstrdup(), we need to check for allocation\nfailures.\n\nIf ses-\u003epassword allocation fails, return -ENOMEM.\nIf ses-\u003epassword2 allocation fails, free ses-\u003epassword, set it\nto NULL, and return -ENOMEM."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"7e8cffa4f85e6839335d75e6b47f918d90c1d194","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"35dbac8c328d6afe937cd45ecd41d209d0b9f8b8"},{"version":"c1eb537bf4560b3ad4df606c266c665624f3b502","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"35488799b0ab6e4327f82e1d9209a60805665b37"},{"version":"c1eb537bf4560b3ad4df606c266c665624f3b502","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9a5dd61151399ad5a5d69aad28ab164734c1e3bc"},{"version":"e78308a6dcab1e53b38b8dd952e69c515cd324d7","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"2a0fc63f1f4fccfeb367d0c57b8a243cec60c26c","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"6.6.24","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6.59"},{"version":"6.7.12","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.8"},{"version":"6.8.3","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.9"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.9","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.9"},{"version":"6.6.59","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.11.6","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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