vulnerability
Red Hat: CVE-2024-50153: kernel: scsi: target: core: Fix null-ptr-deref in target_alloc_device() (Multiple Advisories)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Nov 7, 2024 | May 15, 2025 | May 15, 2025 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: target: core: Fix null-ptr-deref in target_alloc_device()
There is a null-ptr-deref issue reported by KASAN:
BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in target_alloc_device+0xbc4/0xbe0 [target_core_mod]
...
kasan_report+0xb9/0xf0
target_alloc_device+0xbc4/0xbe0 [target_core_mod]
core_dev_setup_virtual_lun0+0xef/0x1f0 [target_core_mod]
target_core_init_configfs+0x205/0x420 [target_core_mod]
do_one_initcall+0xdd/0x4e0
...
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
In target_alloc_device(), if allocing memory for dev queues fails, then
dev will be freed by dev->transport->free_device(), but dev->transport
is not initialized at that time, which will lead to a null pointer
reference problem.
Fixing this bug by freeing dev with hba->backend->ops->free_device().
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