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Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Dec 29, 2024· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2024-56730

CVE-2024-56730

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net/9p/usbg: fix handling of the failed kzalloc() memory allocation

On the linux-next, next-20241108 vanilla kernel, the coccinelle tool gave the following error report:

./net/9p/trans_usbg.c:912:5-11: ERROR: allocation function on line 911 returns NULL not ERR_PTR on failure

kzalloc() failure is fixed to handle the NULL return case on the memory exhaustion.

Affected products

4
  • Linux/Kernelcpe-rescue3 versions
    6.12+ 2 more
    • (no CPE)range: 6.12
    • (no CPE)
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: >=6.12,<6.12.2
  • osv-coords
    Range: >= 6.12.0, < 6.12.2

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