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.
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