CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-56756

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2024-12-29 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2024-12-29
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

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.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 4.13 < 5.4.287) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.231) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.174) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.120) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.64) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.11.11) • linux linux kernel (>= 6.12 < 6.12.2)

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