CVE-2024-56742

CVSS 3.1 Score 5.5 of 10 (medium)

Details

Published Dec 29, 2024
Updated: Jan 7, 2025
CWE ID 401

Summary

CVE-2024-56742 is a vulnerability affecting the Linux kernel. It involves an unwind issue in the function mlx5vf_add_migration_pages(). If a set of pages fails to be added to the SG table, they must be promptly freed to prevent a memory leak. Successfully added pages will be dealt with in mlx5vf_free_data_buffer(). This issue has been resolved.

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