CVE-2024-56756
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.
CVSS
- Versión: 3.1
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Puntuación base: 5.5
Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)
- Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 0.22%
- Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 11
- Fecha de la puntuación: 6/10/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).
Tecnologías afectadas (1)
CWE
- NVD-CWE-Other
Referencias
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3c2fb1ca8086eb139b2a551358137525ae8e0d7a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/452f9ddd12bebc04cef741e8ba3806bf0e1fd015
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/582d9ed999b004fb1d415ecbfa86d4d8df455269
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6d0f599db73b099aa724a12736369c4d4d92849d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/869cf50b9c9d1059f5223f79ef68fc0bc6210095
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ac22240540e0c5230d8c4138e3778420b712716a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cee3bff51a35cab1c5d842d409a7b11caefe2386
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fb96d5cfa97a7363245b3dd523f475b04296d87b
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00001.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00002.html
JSON original (NVD)
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