Bug 2324321 (CVE-2024-50153)

Summary: CVE-2024-50153 kernel: scsi: target: core: Fix null-ptr-deref in target_alloc_device()
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-11-07 10:01:44 UTC 
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().
Comment 1 Robb Gatica 2024-11-07 16:31:43 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024110745-CVE-2024-50153-ecf2@gregkh/T
Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2025-05-13 08:33:14 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2025:6966 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:6966