CVE-2024-43913 (GCVE-0-2024-43913)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-08-26 10:11
Modified
2026-08-05 11:37
Severity ?
7.0 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nvme: apple: fix device reference counting Drivers must call nvme_uninit_ctrl after a successful nvme_init_ctrl. Split the allocation side out to make the error handling boundary easier to navigate. The apple driver had been doing this wrong, leaking the controller device memory on a tagset failure.
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Linux Linux Version: 5bd2927aceba181b84286e00aa2f56e117e699c3
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