CVE-2024-56632 (GCVE-0-2024-56632)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-12-27 15:02
Modified
2026-08-05 11:45
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: nvme-tcp: fix the memleak while create new ctrl failed Now while we create new ctrl failed, we have not free the tagset occupied by admin_q, here try to fix it.
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