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Linux Linux — nvme: apple: fix device reference counting
AV AC PR UI S C I A CVSS EPSS %ile KEV
L L L N U N N H 5.5 .0022 13.1 —
AFFECTED
Product Versions Fixed
Linux 5bd2927aceba181b84286e00aa2f56e117e699c3 – —
Linux 5.19 – 6.6.64
TIMELINE
Aug 17 Reserved by Linux
Aug 26 Published (CNA: Linux)
Aug 4 RESCORED — CVE-2024-43913 (Linux). CVSS 7 → 5.5 (NVD).
Description
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.
Lifecycle
Complete event history — 3 events, chronological
| Date | Event | Detail |
| August 17, 2024 | Reserved | Reserved by Linux |
| August 26, 2024 | Published | Published (CNA: Linux) |
| August 4, 2026 | RESCORED | RESCORED — CVE-2024-43913 (Linux). CVSS 7 → 5.5 (NVD). |
Affected
Affected products and packages — 2 rows
| Vendor | Product / Package | Ecosystem | Version introduced | Fixed |
| Linux | Linux | — | 5bd2927aceba181b84286e00aa2f56e117e699c3 | — |
| Linux | Linux | — | 5.19 | 6.6.64 |
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This is a reference page, not a dated page of record. It assembles the complete lifecycle of CVE-2024-43913 from the CVE Program record, NVD enrichment, the CISA KEV catalog, EPSS, and OSV advisories. The box score's numbers (CVSS, EPSS, KEV status) are current as of Wednesday, August 19, 2026 UTC and are re-derived as the archive grows; only dated daily editions are immutable pages of record. The authoritative source for this identifier is cve.org.