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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-50146" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-11-07T09:31:23.123Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T20:46:20.216Z" 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-2024-50146" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-50146.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-50146" title: "net/mlx5e: Don't call cleanup on profile rollback failure" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/mlx5e: Don't call cleanup on profile rollback failure\n\nWhen profile rollback fails in mlx5e_netdev_change_profile, the netdev\nprofile var is left set to NULL. Avoid a crash when unloading the driver\nby not calling profile-\u003ecleanup in such a case.\n\nThis was encountered while testing, with the original trigger that\nthe wq rescuer thread creation got interrupted (presumably due to\nCtrl+C-ing modprobe), which gets converted to ENOMEM (-12) by\nmlx5e_priv_init, the profile rollback also fails for the same reason\n(signal still active) so the profile is left as NULL, leading to a crash\nlater in _mlx5e_remove.\n\n [ 732.473932] mlx5_core 0000:08:00.1: E-Switch: Unload vfs: mode(OFFLOADS), nvfs(2), necvfs(0), active vports(2)\n [ 734.525513] workqueue: Failed to create a rescuer kthread for wq \"mlx5e\": -EINTR\n [ 734.557372] mlx5_core 0000:08:00.1: mlx5e_netdev_init_profile:6235:(pid 6086): mlx5e_priv_init failed, err=-12\n [ 734.559187] mlx5_core 0000:08:00.1 eth3: mlx5e_netdev_change_profile: new profile init failed, -12\n [ 734.560153] workqueue: Failed to create a rescuer kthread for wq \"mlx5e\": -EINTR\n [ 734.589378] mlx5_core 0000:08:00.1: mlx5e_netdev_init_profile:6235:(pid 6086): mlx5e_priv_init failed, err=-12\n [ 734.591136] mlx5_core 0000:08:00.1 eth3: mlx5e_netdev_change_profile: failed to rollback to orig profile, -12\n [ 745.537492] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000008\n [ 745.538222] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode\n\u003csnipped\u003e\n [ 745.551290] Call Trace:\n [ 745.551590] \u003cTASK\u003e\n [ 745.551866] ? __die+0x20/0x60\n [ 745.552218] ? page_fault_oops+0x150/0x400\n [ 745.555307] ? exc_page_fault+0x79/0x240\n [ 745.555729] ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30\n [ 745.556166] ? mlx5e_remove+0x6b/0xb0 [mlx5_core]\n [ 745.556698] auxiliary_bus_remove+0x18/0x30\n [ 745.557134] device_release_driver_internal+0x1df/0x240\n [ 745.557654] bus_remove_device+0xd7/0x140\n [ 745.558075] device_del+0x15b/0x3c0\n [ 745.558456] mlx5_rescan_drivers_locked.part.0+0xb1/0x2f0 [mlx5_core]\n [ 745.559112] mlx5_unregister_device+0x34/0x50 [mlx5_core]\n [ 745.559686] mlx5_uninit_one+0x46/0xf0 [mlx5_core]\n [ 745.560203] remove_one+0x4e/0xd0 [mlx5_core]\n [ 745.560694] pci_device_remove+0x39/0xa0\n [ 745.561112] device_release_driver_internal+0x1df/0x240\n [ 745.561631] driver_detach+0x47/0x90\n [ 745.562022] bus_remove_driver+0x84/0x100\n [ 745.562444] pci_unregister_driver+0x3b/0x90\n [ 745.562890] mlx5_cleanup+0xc/0x1b [mlx5_core]\n [ 745.563415] __x64_sys_delete_module+0x14d/0x2f0\n [ 745.563886] ? kmem_cache_free+0x1b0/0x460\n [ 745.564313] ? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0xe2/0x190\n [ 745.564825] do_syscall_64+0x6d/0x140\n [ 745.565223] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53\n [ 745.565725] RIP: 0033:0x7f1579b1288b" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"3ef14e463f6ed0218710f56b97e1a7d0448784d2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"db84cb4c8c565e6d4de84b23c2818b63991adfdd"},{"version":"3ef14e463f6ed0218710f56b97e1a7d0448784d2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d6fe973c8873c998734a050f366b28facc03d32a"},{"version":"3ef14e463f6ed0218710f56b97e1a7d0448784d2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3955b77494c3c7d14873b1db67e7e00c46a714db"},{"version":"3ef14e463f6ed0218710f56b97e1a7d0448784d2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4dbc1d1a9f39c3711ad2a40addca04d07d9ab5d0"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.12"},{"version":"6.1.123","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.80","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"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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