CVE-2024-56730

medium

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.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ff1060813d9347e8c45c8b8cff93a4dfdb6726ad

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2cdb416de8b5795fd25fadcb69e1198b6df6d8cc

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2024-12-29

Updated: 2025-01-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium