CVE-2024-56756

Medium

Description

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.5
Exploit probability—
ProductLinux Kernel
PublishedDec 29, 2024
First seenDec 29, 2024

How to fix

Update
  • linux linux_kernel5.4.287, 5.10.231, 5.15.174, 6.1.120, 6.6.64, 6.11.11, 6.12.2 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
linux linux_kernel4.13 ≤ v < 5.4.287, 5.5 ≤ v < 5.10.231, 5.11 ≤ v < 5.15.174, 5.16 ≤ v < 6.1.120, 6.2 ≤ v < 6.6.64, 6.7 ≤ v < 6.11.11, 6.12 ≤ v < 6.12.25.4.287, 5.10.231, 5.15.174, 6.1.120, 6.6.64, 6.11.11, 6.12.2

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