CVE-2024-53117

Summary

CVE-2024-53117 is a vulnerability affecting the Linux kernel's virtio/vsock component. This issue involved insufficient error handling in MSG_ZEROCOPY, leading to memory leaks. To address this issue, a missing kfree_skb() call has been added to prevent memory leaks and improve error handling.

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