CVE-2024-43913
Vulnerability Summary
Timeline
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nvme: apple: fix device reference counting Drivers must call nvme_uninit_ctrl after a successful nvme_init_ctrl. Split the allocation side out to make the error handling boundary easier to navigate. The apple driver had been doing this wrong, leaking the controller device memory on a tagset failure.
CVSS Metrics
- v3.1•MEDIUM•Score: 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Trends
Current EPSS score: 0.01%• Percentile: 3%
Techniques & Countermeasures
- CWE-401•Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, making the memory unavailable for reallocation and reuse.
Affected Systems
- linux•linux
≥ 5bd2927aceba181b84286e00aa2f56e117e699c3, < f7d9a18572fcd7130459b7691bd19ee2a2e951ad | ≥ 5bd2927aceba181b84286e00aa2f56e117e699c3, < d59c4d0eb6adc24c2201f153ccb7fd0a335b0d3d | ≥ 5bd2927aceba181b84286e00aa2f56e117e699c3, < b9ecbfa45516182cd062fecd286db7907ba84210 | 5.19
- linux•linux_kernel
< 6.10.5