vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2022-49160: Security patch for kernel (ALASKERNEL-5.15-2022-005)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Feb 26, 2025
Added
May 22, 2025
Modified
May 22, 2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

scsi: qla2xxx: Fix crash during module load unload test

During purex packet handling the driver was incorrectly freeing a
pre-allocated structure. Fix this by skipping that entry.

System crashed with the following stack during a module unload test.

Call Trace:
sbitmap_init_node+0x7f/0x1e0
sbitmap_queue_init_node+0x24/0x150
blk_mq_init_bitmaps+0x3d/0xa0
blk_mq_init_tags+0x68/0x90
blk_mq_alloc_map_and_rqs+0x44/0x120
blk_mq_alloc_set_map_and_rqs+0x63/0x150
blk_mq_alloc_tag_set+0x11b/0x230
scsi_add_host_with_dma.cold+0x3f/0x245
qla2x00_probe_one+0xd5a/0x1b80 [qla2xxx]

Call Trace with slub_debug and debug kernel:
kasan_report_invalid_free+0x50/0x80
__kasan_slab_free+0x137/0x150
slab_free_freelist_hook+0xc6/0x190
kfree+0xe8/0x2e0
qla2x00_free_device+0x3bb/0x5d0 [qla2xxx]
qla2x00_remove_one+0x668/0xcf0 [qla2xxx]

Solution(s)

amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-bpftoolamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-bpftool-debuginfoamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernelamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernel-debuginfoamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernel-develamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernel-headersamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernel-livepatch-5-15-54-25-126amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernel-toolsamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernel-tools-debuginfoamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-kernel-tools-develamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-perfamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-perf-debuginfoamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-python-perfamazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-python-perf-debuginfo
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