FKIE_CVE-2024-56742

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-12-29 12:15 - Updated: 2026-10-30 13:17
Severity
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
3.3 (Low) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
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().
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/22e87bf3f77c18f5982c19ffe2732ef0c7a25f16Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/465e06ffbb681f6fe34ca3aeba4b609677c3d4c1
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/549384162ed7e84bdefa004b589215d18b0190c5
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/769fe4ce444b646b0bf6ac308de80686c730c7dfPatch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c44f1b2ddfa81c8d7f8e9b6bc76c427bc00e69d5Patch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel *
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