CVE-2024-46737: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nvmet-tcp: fix kernel crash if commands allocation fails If the commands allocation fails in nvmet_tcp_alloc_cmds() the kernel crashes in nvmet_tcp_release_queue_work() because of a NULL pointer dereference. nvmet: failed to install queue 0 cntlid 1 ret 6 Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000008 Fix the bug by setting queue->nr_cmds to zero in case nvmet_tcp_alloc_cmd() fails.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.0, before 5.4.284 (fixed in 5.4.284); from 5.5, before 5.10.226 (fixed in 5.10.226); from 5.11, before 5.15.167 (fixed in 5.15.167); from 5.16, before 6.1.110 (fixed in 6.1.110); from 6.2, before 6.6.51 (fixed in 6.6.51); from 6.7, before 6.10.10 (fixed in 6.10.10); …

Published 2024-09-18. Last modified 2026-08-04.