CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-56660

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2024-12-27 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2024-12-27
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-476

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5: DR, prevent potential error pointer dereference The dr_domain_add_vport_cap() function generally returns NULL on error but sometimes we want it to return ERR_PTR(-EBUSY) so the caller can retry. The problem here is that "ret" can be either -EBUSY or -ENOMEM and if it's and -ENOMEM then the error pointer is propogated back and eventually dereferenced in dr_ste_v0_build_src_gvmi_qpn_tag().

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.121) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.67) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.6) • linux linux kernel 6.13

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References