CVE-2024-56730

unknown
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v4 NEW
not yet in upstream
VIR risk

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/9p/usbg: fix handling of the failed kzalloc() memory allocation On the linux-next, next-20241108 vanilla kernel, the coccinelle tool gave the following error report: ./net/9p/trans_usbg.c:912:5-11: ERROR: allocation function on line 911 returns NULL not ERR_PTR on failure kzalloc() failure is fixed to handle the NULL return case on the memory exhaustion.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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OS impact

suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
Affected
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 0
sid Fixed 0
forky Fixed 0
bullseye Fixed 0
bookworm Fixed 0

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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