CVE-2024-42286

scsi: qla2xxx: validate nvme_local_port correctly

State: Published
Severity: 7.5 High
Published: Aug 17, 2024
Updated: Aug 5, 2026
Reserved: Jul 30, 2024

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Description

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.5 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	Linux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
LinuxLinux	8777e4314d397c4e3615dc02fe8537e571e3922f to before 549aac9655320c9b245a24271b204668c5d40430Affected 8777e4314d397c4e3615dc02fe8537e571e3922f to before e1f010844443c389bc552884ac5cfa47de34d54cAffected 8777e4314d397c4e3615dc02fe8537e571e3922f to before a3ab508a4853a9f5ae25a7816a4889f09938f63cAffected 8777e4314d397c4e3615dc02fe8537e571e3922f to before cde43031df533751b4ead37d173922feee2f550fAffected 8777e4314d397c4e3615dc02fe8537e571e3922f to before 7cec2c3bfe84539c415f5e16f989228eba1d2f1eAffected 8777e4314d397c4e3615dc02fe8537e571e3922f to before f6be298cc1042f24d521197af29c7c4eb95af4d5Affected 8777e4314d397c4e3615dc02fe8537e571e3922f to before 3eac973eb5cb2b874b3918f924798afc5affd46bAffected 8777e4314d397c4e3615dc02fe8537e571e3922f to before eb1d4ce2609584eeb7694866f34d4b213caa3af9Affected
LinuxLinux	4.19Affected before 4.19Not affected 4.19.320 through 4.19.Not affected 5.4.282 through 5.4.Not affected 5.10.224 through 5.10.Not affected 5.15.165 through 5.15.Not affected 6.1.103 through 6.1.Not affected 6.6.44 through 6.6.Not affected 6.10.3 through 6.10.*Not affected 6.11 and laterNot affected

Product

Versions

LinuxLinux

8777e4314d397c4e3615dc02fe8537e571e3922f to before 549aac9655320c9b245a24271b204668c5d40430Affected
8777e4314d397c4e3615dc02fe8537e571e3922f to before e1f010844443c389bc552884ac5cfa47de34d54cAffected
8777e4314d397c4e3615dc02fe8537e571e3922f to before a3ab508a4853a9f5ae25a7816a4889f09938f63cAffected
8777e4314d397c4e3615dc02fe8537e571e3922f to before cde43031df533751b4ead37d173922feee2f550fAffected
8777e4314d397c4e3615dc02fe8537e571e3922f to before 7cec2c3bfe84539c415f5e16f989228eba1d2f1eAffected
8777e4314d397c4e3615dc02fe8537e571e3922f to before f6be298cc1042f24d521197af29c7c4eb95af4d5Affected
8777e4314d397c4e3615dc02fe8537e571e3922f to before 3eac973eb5cb2b874b3918f924798afc5affd46bAffected
8777e4314d397c4e3615dc02fe8537e571e3922f to before eb1d4ce2609584eeb7694866f34d4b213caa3af9Affected

LinuxLinux

4.19Affected
before 4.19Not affected
4.19.320 through 4.19.*Not affected
5.4.282 through 5.4.*Not affected
5.10.224 through 5.10.*Not affected
5.15.165 through 5.15.*Not affected
6.1.103 through 6.1.*Not affected
6.6.44 through 6.6.*Not affected
6.10.3 through 6.10.*Not affected
6.11 and laterNot affected

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