CVE-2022-50459
scsi: iscsi: iscsi_tcp: Fix null-ptr-deref while calling getpeername()
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 7.8 High
- Published
- Oct 1, 2025
- Updated
- Aug 5, 2026
- Reserved
- Oct 1, 2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: iscsi: iscsi_tcp: Fix null-ptr-deref while calling getpeername()
Fix a NULL pointer crash that occurs when we are freeing the socket at the same time we access it via sysfs.
The problem is that:
1. iscsi_sw_tcp_conn_get_param() and iscsi_sw_tcp_host_get_param() take the frwd_lock and do sock_hold() then drop the frwd_lock. sock_hold() does a get on the "struct sock".
2. iscsi_sw_tcp_release_conn() does sockfd_put() which does the last put on the "struct socket" and that does __sock_release() which sets the sock->ops to NULL.
3. iscsi_sw_tcp_conn_get_param() and iscsi_sw_tcp_host_get_param() then call kernel_getpeername() which accesses the NULL sock->ops.
Above we do a get on the "struct sock", but we needed a get on the "struct socket". Originally, we just held the frwd_lock the entire time but in commit bcf3a2953d36 ("scsi: iscsi: iscsi_tcp: Avoid holding spinlock while calling getpeername()") we switched to refcount based because the network layer changed and started taking a mutex in that path, so we could no longer hold the frwd_lock.
Instead of trying to maintain multiple refcounts, this just has us use a mutex for accessing the socket in the interface code paths.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 7.8 High | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | Linux |
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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LinuxLinux |
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LinuxLinux |
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References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/884a788f065578bb640382279a83d1df433b13e6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a26b0658751bb0a3b28386fca715333b104d32a2
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/897dbbc57d71e8a34ec1af8e573a142de457da38
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0a0b861fce2657ba08ec356a74346b37ca4b2008
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/57569c37f0add1b6489e1a1563c71519daf732cf
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