CVE-2024-56742

MEDIUM
MEDIUM Priority: 0.01 BB Relevance: 36/100
Published: 2024-12-29 Modified: 2026-10-30 First seen: 2026-10-30 Status: active

Attack Surface

Low Complexity No Interaction

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Local
AC: Low
PR: Low
UI: None
S: Unchanged
C: None
I: None
A: High

Description

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().

Weakness Classification (1)

Affected Software (7)

VendorProductVersion
Linux Linux 6fadb021266d03c5fd7bca2cfa1607efd246dad1 < 549384162ed7e84bdefa004b589215d18b0190c5
Linux Linux 6fadb021266d03c5fd7bca2cfa1607efd246dad1 < 465e06ffbb681f6fe34ca3aeba4b609677c3d4c1
Linux Linux 6fadb021266d03c5fd7bca2cfa1607efd246dad1 < 769fe4ce444b646b0bf6ac308de80686c730c7df
Linux Linux 6fadb021266d03c5fd7bca2cfa1607efd246dad1 < c44f1b2ddfa81c8d7f8e9b6bc76c427bc00e69d5
Linux Linux 6fadb021266d03c5fd7bca2cfa1607efd246dad1 < 22e87bf3f77c18f5982c19ffe2732ef0c7a25f16
Linux Linux 5.18
linux linux_kernel 5.18 – 6.11.11

Bug Bounty Relevance

36 / 100
✓ Low complexity
✓ No user interaction

CVSS Score

5.5 / 10.0 v3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.25%
Raw Score 0.002500
Percentile 16.5%
Date 2026-11-01

EPSS Trend

2026-11-01
0.00250
2026-10-31
0.00250
2026-10-30
0.00250
2026-10-29
0.00250

Intelligence Sources

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