Bug 2262983 (CVE-2024-24855)

Summary:	CVE-2024-24855 kernel: Race condition in lpfc_unregister_fcf_rescan() in scsi/lpfc/lpfc_hbadisc.c
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security <prodsec-ir-bot>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
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Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	acaringi, allarkin, aquini, bhu, chwhite, cye, cyin, dbohanno, debarbos, dfreiber, drow, dvlasenk, emilne, ezulian, hkrzesin, jarod, jburrell, jdenham, jfaracco, jforbes, jlelli, joe.lawrence, jshortt, jstancek, jwyatt, kcarcia, ldoskova, lgoncalv, lzampier, mleitner, mmilgram, mrehak, mstowell, nmurray, ptalbert, rogbas, rparrazo, rrobaina, rvrbovsk, scweaver, sukulkar, tglozar, vkumar, wcosta, williams, wmealing, ycote, ykopkova, zhijwang
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Doc Text:	A race condition vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's SCSI device driver in the lpfc_unregister_fcf_rescan() function. This issue can result in a NULL pointer dereference issue, possibly leading to a kernel panic or denial of service.	Story Points:	---
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Bug Depends On:	2262985
Bug Blocks:	2262987

Description Pedro Sampaio 2024-02-06 12:44:38 UTC

A race condition was found in the Linux kernel's scsi device driver in lpfc_unregister_fcf_rescan() function. This can result in a null pointer dereference issue, possibly leading to a kernel panic or denial of service issue.

References:

https://bugzilla.openanolis.cn/show_bug.cgi?id=8149

Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2024-02-06 12:47:15 UTC

No info available from reference (private bug). Fixing commit might be:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2023/8/3/683
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/0e881c0a4b6146b7e856735226208f48251facd8

Comment 2 Pedro Sampaio 2024-02-06 12:49:43 UTC

Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2262985]