CVE-2024-56742 – VMware ESXi Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Unwind

CVE ID : CVE-2024-56742

Published : Dec. 29, 2024, 12:15 p.m. | 1 hour, 1 minute ago

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().

Severity: 0.0 | NA

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CVE-2024-56742 – VMware ESXi Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Unwind