CVE-2024-56730 (GCVE-0-2024-56730)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-12-29 11:30 – Updated: 2026-05-11 20:58
VLAI
Title
net/9p/usbg: fix handling of the failed kzalloc() memory allocation
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/9p/usbg: fix handling of the failed kzalloc() memory allocation On the linux-next, next-20241108 vanilla kernel, the coccinelle tool gave the following error report: ./net/9p/trans_usbg.c:912:5-11: ERROR: allocation function on line 911 returns NULL not ERR_PTR on failure kzalloc() failure is fixed to handle the NULL return case on the memory exhaustion.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-10-01 19:57 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: a3be076dc174d9022a71a12554feb4c97b5c4d5c , < 2cdb416de8b5795fd25fadcb69e1198b6df6d8cc (git)
Affected: a3be076dc174d9022a71a12554feb4c97b5c4d5c , < ff1060813d9347e8c45c8b8cff93a4dfdb6726ad (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.12
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.12 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.2 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.13 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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