# 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-2024-46716"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-09-18T06:32:16.084Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T11:38:07.411Z"
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-2024-46716"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-46716.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-46716"
title: "dmaengine: altera-msgdma: properly free descriptor in msgdma_free_descriptor"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndmaengine: altera-msgdma: properly free descriptor in msgdma_free_descriptor\n\nRemove list_del call in msgdma_chan_desc_cleanup, this should be the role\nof msgdma_free_descriptor. In consequence replace list_add_tail with\nlist_move_tail in msgdma_free_descriptor.\n\nThis fixes the path:\n   msgdma_free_chan_resources -\u003e msgdma_free_descriptors -\u003e\n   msgdma_free_desc_list -\u003e msgdma_free_descriptor\n\nwhich does not correctly free the descriptors as first nodes were not\nremoved from the list."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"a85c6f1b2921cbd2f54666a52804f407c4a064fe","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a3480e59fdbe5585d2d1eff0bed7671583acf725"},{"version":"a85c6f1b2921cbd2f54666a52804f407c4a064fe","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"20bf2920a869f9dbda0ef8c94c87d1901a64a716"},{"version":"a85c6f1b2921cbd2f54666a52804f407c4a064fe","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"db67686676c7becc1910bf1d6d51505876821863"},{"version":"a85c6f1b2921cbd2f54666a52804f407c4a064fe","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"54e4ada1a4206f878e345ae01cf37347d803d1b1"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.14","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.14"},{"version":"6.1.109","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.50","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.10.9","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.10.*"},{"version":"6.11","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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