CVE-2024-46737 (GCVE-0-2024-46737)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-09-18 07:11
Modified
2026-08-05 11:38
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
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.
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Linux Linux Version: 872d26a391da92ed8f0c0f5cb5fef428067b7f30
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Version: 872d26a391da92ed8f0c0f5cb5fef428067b7f30
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