Published Oct 21, 2024Sources checked Oct 24, 2026
5.5MEDIUMCVSS out of 10
What this means
Review the available evidence
CVE-2024-50012 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
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-2024-50012?
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cpufreq: Avoid a bad reference count on CPU node
In the parse_perf_domain function, if the call to of_parse_phandle_with_args returns an error, then the reference to the CPU device node that was acquired at the start of the function would not be properly decremented.
Address this by declaring the variable with the __free(device_node) cleanup attribute.