CVE-2024-43913 nvme: apple: fix device reference counting
A memory leak in the Apple NVMe driver allows attackers to cause a denial of service by exhausting kernel memory through repeated device initialization failures.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2024-43913?
CVE-2024-43913 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 26 Aug 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nvme: apple: fix device reference counting
Drivers must call nvme_uninit_ctrl after a successful nvme_init_ctrl. Split the allocation side out to make the error handling boundary easier to navigate. The apple driver had been doing this wrong, leaking the controller device memory on a tagset failure.
Weakness: CWE-401
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-43913?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Linux kernel.
How do I fix CVE-2024-43913?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2024-43913 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-43913 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Linux kernel
Sources
Also known as AZL-48632, AZL-48689, BELL-CVE-2024-43913, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-43913, GHSA-w46w-6cr6-6pvh, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2024-43913 and 1 more.