nvme: apple: fix device reference counting
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Local
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- High
- Impact type
- Denial of service
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-401.
Summary
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.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 6.1.191, 6.6.64, 6.10.5, 6.11
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
Not affected: 4 products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-43913
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-w46w-6cr6-6pvh
- 2026-10-30 Fix available: Linux/Linux@0c9e4e99dcc0d30160d65044f54a92ff6372c90d, Linux/[email protected] · CNA
- 2026-10-30 1 new reference · CNA
References
Patch 2
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Sources
- CVE-2024-43913 · CVE Program
- CVE-2024-43913 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-w46w-6cr6-6pvh · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2024-43913 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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