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CVE-2024-56742

Medium 5.5

Published
Last modified
NVD status
Modified

Description

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().

Affected products

linux: linux kernel

References5

Metrics

CVSS 3.1
5.5 MEDIUM Score source: NVD CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS — exploit probability
0% percentile: 17 · as of 6 November 2026
CWE
CWE-401

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