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CVE-2024-56660

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.5 Published: 2024-12-27 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5: DR, prevent potential error pointer dereference The dr_domain_add_vport_cap() function generally returns NULL on error but sometimes we want it to return ERR_PTR(-EBUSY) so the caller can retry. The problem here is that "ret" can be either -EBUSY or -ENOMEM and if it's and -ENOMEM then the error pointer is propogated back and eventually dereferenced in dr_ste_v0_build_src_gvmi_qpn_tag().

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

CWE-476, CWE-476

References