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CVE-2024-43913: nvme: apple: fix device reference counting

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-08-26 · updated 2026-10-30
• Weakness: CWE-401

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.

Affected products

• Linux kernel: before 6.10.5 — fixed in 6.10.5
• Linux: 5.19 — fixed in 6.11

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 6.10.5; Linux 6.11. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0c9e4e99dcc0d30160d65044f54a92ff6372c90d
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b9ecbfa45516182cd062fecd286db7907ba84210
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d59c4d0eb6adc24c2201f153ccb7fd0a335b0d3d
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f7d9a18572fcd7130459b7691bd19ee2a2e951ad

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