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

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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

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • bcf3a2953d36bbfb9bd44ccb3db0897d935cc485 to before 884a788f065578bb640382279a83d1df433b13e6Affected
  • bcf3a2953d36bbfb9bd44ccb3db0897d935cc485 to before a26b0658751bb0a3b28386fca715333b104d32a2Affected
  • bcf3a2953d36bbfb9bd44ccb3db0897d935cc485 to before 897dbbc57d71e8a34ec1af8e573a142de457da38Affected
  • bcf3a2953d36bbfb9bd44ccb3db0897d935cc485 to before 0a0b861fce2657ba08ec356a74346b37ca4b2008Affected
  • bcf3a2953d36bbfb9bd44ccb3db0897d935cc485 to before 57569c37f0add1b6489e1a1563c71519daf732cfAffected
  • 7d29e950766327f658cb92722b9445ac3b3ae023Affected
  • 5.8.14 to before 5.9Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.9Affected
  • before 5.9Not affected
  • 5.10.150 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.75 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 5.19.17 through 5.19.*Not affected
  • 6.0.3 through 6.0.*Not affected
  • 6.1 and laterNot affected

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