CVE-2024-41073
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nvme: avoid double free special payload If a discard request needs to be retried, and that retry may fail before a new special payload is added, a double free will result.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.67%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nvme: avoid double free special payload If a discard request needs to be retried, and that retry may fail before a new special payload is added, a double free will result. Clear the RQF_SPECIAL_LOAD when the request is cleaned.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.67% probability · 50th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-415
- Affected
- debian/debian linux · linux/linux kernel
- Source
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b9fd1265fac85916f90b4648de02adccdb7220bPatch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/882574942a9be8b9d70d13462ddacc80c4b385baPatch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ae84383c96d6662c24697ab6b44aae855ab670aaPatch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c5942a14f795de957ae9d66027aac8ff4fe70057Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e5d574ab37f5f2e7937405613d9b1a724811e5adPatch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f3ab45aacd25d957547fb6d115c1574c20964b3bPatch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b9fd1265fac85916f90b4648de02adccdb7220bPatch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ae84383c96d6662c24697ab6b44aae855ab670aaPatch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c5942a14f795de957ae9d66027aac8ff4fe70057Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e5d574ab37f5f2e7937405613d9b1a724811e5adPatch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f3ab45aacd25d957547fb6d115c1574c20964b3bPatch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00001.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00030.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.