NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting kernel-zfcpdump-modules-internal package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL9-KERNELZFCPDUMPMODULESINTERNAL-7738646
  • published 21 Aug 2024
  • disclosed 17 Aug 2024

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:9 kernel-zfcpdump-modules-internal.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-zfcpdump-modules-internal package and not the kernel-zfcpdump-modules-internal package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

scsi: qla2xxx: validate nvme_local_port correctly

The driver load failed with error message,

qla2xxx [0000:04:00.0]-ffff:0: register_localport failed: ret=ffffffef

and with a kernel crash,

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000070
Workqueue: events_unbound qla_register_fcport_fn [qla2xxx]
RIP: 0010:nvme_fc_register_remoteport+0x16/0x430 [nvme_fc]
RSP: 0018:ffffaaa040eb3d98 EFLAGS: 00010282
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff9dfb46b78c00 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: ffff9dfb46b78da8 RSI: ffffaaa040eb3e08 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffff9dfb612a0a58 R08: ffffffffaf1d6270 R09: 3a34303a30303030
R10: 34303a303030305b R11: 2078787832616c71 R12: ffff9dfb46b78dd4
R13: ffff9dfb46b78c24 R14: ffff9dfb41525300 R15: ffff9dfb46b78da8
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9dfc67c00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000070 CR3: 000000018da10004 CR4: 00000000000206f0
Call Trace:
qla_nvme_register_remote+0xeb/0x1f0 [qla2xxx]
? qla2x00_dfs_create_rport+0x231/0x270 [qla2xxx]
qla2x00_update_fcport+0x2a1/0x3c0 [qla2xxx]
qla_register_fcport_fn+0x54/0xc0 [qla2xxx]

Exit the qla_nvme_register_remote() function when qla_nvme_register_hba() fails and correctly validate nvme_local_port.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

5.5 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Local
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    Low
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    High
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Red Hat

5.5 medium
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SUSE

4.4 medium