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CVE-2024-53138

5.5 medium SSVC exploitation: none Modified

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5e: kTLS, Fix incorrect page refcounting The kTLS tx handling code is using a mix of get_page() and page_ref_inc() APIs to increment the page reference. But on the release path (mlx5e_ktls_tx_handle_resync_dump_comp()), only put_page() is used. This is an issue when using pages from large folios: the get_page() references are stored on the folio page while the page_ref_inc() references are stored directly in the given page. On release the folio page will be dereferenced too many times. This was found while doing kTLS testing with sendfile() + ZC when the served file was read from NFS on a kernel with NFS large folios support (commit 49b29a573da8 ("nfs: add support for large folios")).

Fix

Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 4

Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.

Change history 1

  1. First seenCVSS 5.5 · linuxNVD modified 2026-10-15 22:18

Affected (CPE criteria) 8

  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.12:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.12:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.12:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.12:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.12:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.12:rc6:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.12:rc7:*:*:*:*:*:*

References 9