---
id: CVE-2024-43913
title: 'nvme: apple: fix device reference counting'
summary: |-
  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 handli…
severity: high
cvss: 7
cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'
cvssSource: cna
vendor: Linux
product: Linux
affected:
  - >-
    Linux >= 5bd2927aceba181b84286e00aa2f56e117e699c3 <
    0c9e4e99dcc0d30160d65044f54a92ff6372c90d
  - >-
    Linux >= 5bd2927aceba181b84286e00aa2f56e117e699c3 <
    f7d9a18572fcd7130459b7691bd19ee2a2e951ad
  - >-
    Linux >= 5bd2927aceba181b84286e00aa2f56e117e699c3 <
    d59c4d0eb6adc24c2201f153ccb7fd0a335b0d3d
  - >-
    Linux >= 5bd2927aceba181b84286e00aa2f56e117e699c3 <
    b9ecbfa45516182cd062fecd286db7907ba84210
  - Linux 5.19
ssvc:
  exploitation: none
  automatable: 'no'
  technicalImpact: partial
  timestamp: '2024-09-10T15:28:07.669349Z'
published: '2024-08-26'
updated: '2026-10-30'
sourceUpdated: '2026-10-30T12:19:07.649Z'
source: CVEORG
sourceUrl: 'https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-43913'
references:
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0c9e4e99dcc0d30160d65044f54a92ff6372c90d'
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f7d9a18572fcd7130459b7691bd19ee2a2e951ad'
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d59c4d0eb6adc24c2201f153ccb7fd0a335b0d3d'
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b9ecbfa45516182cd062fecd286db7907ba84210'
tags:
  - cve.org
epss: 0.00223
epssPercentile: 0.12936
ingestedAt: '2026-11-03T13:45:42.688Z'
---

## Overview

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.

## Affected

- `Linux >= 5bd2927aceba181b84286e00aa2f56e117e699c3 < 0c9e4e99dcc0d30160d65044f54a92ff6372c90d`
- `Linux >= 5bd2927aceba181b84286e00aa2f56e117e699c3 < f7d9a18572fcd7130459b7691bd19ee2a2e951ad`
- `Linux >= 5bd2927aceba181b84286e00aa2f56e117e699c3 < d59c4d0eb6adc24c2201f153ccb7fd0a335b0d3d`
- `Linux >= 5bd2927aceba181b84286e00aa2f56e117e699c3 < b9ecbfa45516182cd062fecd286db7907ba84210`
- `Linux 5.19`

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.