CVE-2024-56742: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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: from 5.18, before 6.11.11 (fixed in 6.11.11); from 6.12, before 6.12.2 (fixed in 6.12.2)

Published 2024-12-29. Last modified 2026-06-17.