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CVE-2024-40936cxl/region: Fix memregion leaks in devm_cxl_add_region()
- 5.5MediumCVSS base score
- 0.25%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 84% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cxl/region: Fix memregion leaks in devm_cxl_add_region() Move the mode verification to __create_region() before allocating the memregion to avoid the memregion leaks.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Linux
Published
- 22 months later
· 22 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.25% · top 84% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Affected products
- affected 6e099264185d05f50400ea494f5029264a4fe995 – < d8316838aa0686da63a8be4194b7a17b0103ae4a
- affected 6e099264185d05f50400ea494f5029264a4fe995 – < bbb5d8746381c82f7e0fb6171094d375b492f266
- affected 6e099264185d05f50400ea494f5029264a4fe995 – < 49ba7b515c4c0719b866d16f068e62d16a8a3dd1
- affected 6.3
- unaffected < 6.3
- unaffected 6.6.35 – ≤ 6.6.*
- unaffected 6.9.6 – ≤ 6.9.*
- unaffected 6.10 – ≤ *
References
References3
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d8316838aa0686da63a8be4194b7a17b0103ae4a (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bbb5d8746381c82f7e0fb6171094d375b492f266 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/49ba7b515c4c0719b866d16f068e62d16a8a3dd1 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2024-38824 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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