GHSA-2398-V7WM-X7GR

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-12-29 12:30 – Updated: 2025-11-03 21:32
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

nvme-pci: fix freeing of the HMB descriptor table

The HMB descriptor table is sized to the maximum number of descriptors that could be used for a given device, but __nvme_alloc_host_mem could break out of the loop earlier on memory allocation failure and end up using less descriptors than planned for, which leads to an incorrect size passed to dma_free_coherent.

In practice this was not showing up because the number of descriptors tends to be low and the dma coherent allocator always allocates and frees at least a page.

Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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  "aliases": [
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  "id": "GHSA-2398-v7wm-x7gr",
  "modified": "2025-11-03T21:32:02Z",
  "published": "2024-12-29T12:30:41Z",
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