CVE intelligence

CVE-2024-50008

Vulnerability intelligence

Published Oct 21, 2024Sources checked Oct 24, 2026

5.5MEDIUMCVSS out of 10

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Review the available evidence

CVE-2024-50008 and is rated Medium severity with a CVSS score of 5.5. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.

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Vendor revision: Aug 12, 2026

CBL-Mariner Releases

Vendor-listed releases

5.15.173.1-1
6.6.57.1-2

CISA KEVNot listedBased on the latest collected catalog

EPSS0.2%Estimated 30-day exploitation probability

Ransomware useNot markedCISA KEV ransomware field

Threat actors0Source-linked actor relationships

Overview

What is CVE-2024-50008?

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

wifi: mwifiex: Fix memcpy() field-spanning write warning in mwifiex_cmd_802_11_scan_ext()

Replace one-element array with a flexible-array member in `struct host_cmd_ds_802_11_scan_ext`.

With this, fix the following warning:

elo 16 17:51:58 surfacebook kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------ elo 16 17:51:58 surfacebook kernel: memcpy: detected field-spanning write (size 243) of single field "ext_scan->tlv_buffer" at drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/scan.c:2239 (size 1) elo 16 17:51:58 surfacebook kernel: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 498 at drivers/net/wireless/marvell/mwifiex/scan.c:2239 mwifiex_cmd_802_11_scan_ext+0x83/0x90 [mwifiex]

Source: NVD