CVE Catalog

CVE-2024-56742

MediumCVSS 5.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.25%

16th percentile - higher than 16% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, a bug was fixed in mlx5vf_add_migration_pages() in vfio/mlx5 where, if pages failed to be added to the SG table, they were not freed, leading to a memory leak.

Risk Assessment

May cause memory leaks on systems using VFIO migration with mlx5, leading to gradual resource consumption.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix, especially on systems using vfio/mlx5 for virtual machine migration.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vfio/mlx5: Fix an unwind issue in mlx5vf_add_migration_pages() Fix an unwind issue in mlx5vf_add_migration_pages(). If a set of pages is allocated but fails to be added to the SG table, they need to be freed to prevent a memory leak. Any pages successfully added to the SG table will be freed as part of mlx5vf_free_data_buffer().

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS