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  1. Linux Kernel dm Cleanup Patch CVE-2024-50277: Defensive Fix for Allocation Failures

    A small, defensive upstream patch in the Linux kernel closed CVE-2024-50277 — a device-mapper (dm) crash that occurs when blk_alloc_disk fails and leaves md->disk set to an error pointer that is later dereferenced during device cleanup. The flaw is not a remote, privilege-escalation exploit; it...
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