# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-42152"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-07-30T07:46:44.795Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T11:35:52.904Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:16.009Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-42152"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-42152.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-42152"
title: "nvmet: fix a possible leak when destroy a ctrl during qp establishment"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnvmet: fix a possible leak when destroy a ctrl during qp establishment\n\nIn nvmet_sq_destroy we capture sq-\u003ectrl early and if it is non-NULL we\nknow that a ctrl was allocated (in the admin connect request handler)\nand we need to release pending AERs, clear ctrl-\u003esqs and sq-\u003ectrl\n(for nvme-loop primarily), and drop the final reference on the ctrl.\n\nHowever, a small window is possible where nvmet_sq_destroy starts (as\na result of the client giving up and disconnecting) concurrently with\nthe nvme admin connect cmd (which may be in an early stage). But *before*\nkill_and_confirm of sq-\u003eref (i.e. the admin connect managed to get an sq\nlive reference). In this case, sq-\u003ectrl was allocated however after it was\ncaptured in a local variable in nvmet_sq_destroy.\nThis prevented the final reference drop on the ctrl.\n\nSolve this by re-capturing the sq-\u003ectrl after all inflight request has\ncompleted, where for sure sq-\u003ectrl reference is final, and move forward\nbased on that.\n\nThis issue was observed in an environment with many hosts connecting\nmultiple ctrls simoutanuosly, creating a delay in allocating a ctrl\nleading up to this race window."
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