# 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-2024-50298"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-11-19T01:30:46.029Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T00:57:44.800Z"
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-2024-50298"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-50298.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-50298"
title: "net: enetc: allocate vf_state during PF probes"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: enetc: allocate vf_state during PF probes\n\nIn the previous implementation, vf_state is allocated memory only when VF\nis enabled. However, net_device_ops::ndo_set_vf_mac() may be called before\nVF is enabled to configure the MAC address of VF. If this is the case,\nenetc_pf_set_vf_mac() will access vf_state, resulting in access to a null\npointer. The simplified error log is as follows.\n\nroot@ls1028ardb:~# ip link set eno0 vf 1 mac 00:0c:e7:66:77:89\n[  173.543315] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000004\n[  173.637254] pc : enetc_pf_set_vf_mac+0x3c/0x80 Message from sy\n[  173.641973] lr : do_setlink+0x4a8/0xec8\n[  173.732292] Call trace:\n[  173.734740]  enetc_pf_set_vf_mac+0x3c/0x80\n[  173.738847]  __rtnl_newlink+0x530/0x89c\n[  173.742692]  rtnl_newlink+0x50/0x7c\n[  173.746189]  rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x128/0x390\n[  173.750298]  netlink_rcv_skb+0x60/0x130\n[  173.754145]  rtnetlink_rcv+0x18/0x24\n[  173.757731]  netlink_unicast+0x318/0x380\n[  173.761665]  netlink_sendmsg+0x17c/0x3c8"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"d4fd0404c1c95b17880f254ebfee3485693fa8ba","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"35668e29e979b3a1927d3959cdd87327afd8e5eb"},{"version":"d4fd0404c1c95b17880f254ebfee3485693fa8ba","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ef0edfbe9eeed1fccad7cb705648af5222664944"},{"version":"d4fd0404c1c95b17880f254ebfee3485693fa8ba","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7eb923f8d4819737c07d6a8d0daef0a4d7f99e0c"},{"version":"d4fd0404c1c95b17880f254ebfee3485693fa8ba","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e15c5506dd39885cd047f811a64240e2e8ab401b"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.1","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.1"},{"version":"6.1.167","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.61","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.11.8","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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