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CVE-2024-56742 (GCVE-0-2024-56742)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-12-29 11:30 – Updated: 2026-05-11 20:58
VLAI
Title
vfio/mlx5: Fix an unwind issue in mlx5vf_add_migration_pages()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vfio/mlx5: Fix an unwind issue in mlx5vf_add_migration_pages() Fix an unwind issue in mlx5vf_add_migration_pages(). If a set of pages is allocated but fails to be added to the SG table, they need to be freed to prevent a memory leak. Any pages successfully added to the SG table will be freed as part of mlx5vf_free_data_buffer().
Severity
3.3 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-04-17 20:10 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-401 - Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 6fadb021266d03c5fd7bca2cfa1607efd246dad1 , < 769fe4ce444b646b0bf6ac308de80686c730c7df (git)
Affected: 6fadb021266d03c5fd7bca2cfa1607efd246dad1 , < c44f1b2ddfa81c8d7f8e9b6bc76c427bc00e69d5 (git)
Affected: 6fadb021266d03c5fd7bca2cfa1607efd246dad1 , < 22e87bf3f77c18f5982c19ffe2732ef0c7a25f16 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.18
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.18 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.11.11 , ≤ 6.11.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.2 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.13 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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