# CVE-2024-50167: be2net: fix potential memory leak in be\_xmit()

- Severity: CVSS 5.5 (Medium), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-11-07 · Updated: 2026-05-11

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 4.2

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: be2net: fix potential memory leak in be_xmit() The be_xmit() returns NETDEV_TX_OK without freeing skb in case of be_xmit_enqueue() fails, add dev_kfree_skb_any() to fix it.

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## Related

- Browse: [Linux kernel](https://cve.now/tech/linux-kernel.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/941026023c256939943a47d1c66671526befbb26
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6b7ce8ee01c33c380aaa5077ff25215492e7eb0e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/77bc881d370e850b7f3cd2b5eae67d596b40efbc
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/919ab6e2370289a2748780f44a43333cd3878aa7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4c5f170ef4f85731a4d43ad9a6ac51106c0946be
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/641c1beed52bf3c6deb0193fe4d38ec9ff75d2ae
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e86a79b804e26e3b7f1e415b22a085c0bb7ea3d3
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e4dd8bfe0f6a23acd305f9b892c00899089bd621

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