{"id":"CVE-2024-50169","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2024-50169","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T02:13:58.094Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vsock: Update rx_bytes on read_skb() Make sure virtio_transport_inc_rx_pkt() and virtio_transport_dec_rx_pkt() calls are balanced (i.e. virtio_vsock_sock::rx_bytes doesn't lie) after…","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvsock: Update rx_bytes on read_skb()\n\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().\n\nWhile here, also inform the peer that we've freed up space and it has more\ncredit.\n\nFailing to update rx_bytes after packet is dequeued leads to a warning on\nSOCK_STREAM recv():\n\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","published":"2024-11-07T10:15:08.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T08:03:46.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":[],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.00218,"percentile":0.12204,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.22%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3543152f2d330141d9394d28855cb90b860091d2","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/66cd51de31c682a311c2fa25c580b7ea45859dd9","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e5ca2b98090b4bb1c393088c724af6c37812a829","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-50169","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}