CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-56756
5.5 MEDIUM
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- 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)
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3c2fb1ca8086eb139b2a551358137525ae8e0d7a Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/452f9ddd12bebc04cef741e8ba3806bf0e1fd015 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/582d9ed999b004fb1d415ecbfa86d4d8df455269 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6d0f599db73b099aa724a12736369c4d4d92849d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/869cf50b9c9d1059f5223f79ef68fc0bc6210095 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ac22240540e0c5230d8c4138e3778420b712716a Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cee3bff51a35cab1c5d842d409a7b11caefe2386 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fb96d5cfa97a7363245b3dd523f475b04296d87b Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00001.html lists.debian.org
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00002.html lists.debian.org