5.5

CVE-2023-52811

scsi: ibmvfc: Remove BUG_ON in the case of an empty event pool

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

scsi: ibmvfc: Remove BUG_ON in the case of an empty event pool

In practice the driver should never send more commands than are allocated
to a queue's event pool. In the unlikely event that this happens, the code
asserts a BUG_ON, and in the case that the kernel is not configured to
crash on panic returns a junk event pointer from the empty event list
causing things to spiral from there. This BUG_ON is a historical artifact
of the ibmvfc driver first being upstreamed, and it is well known now that
the use of BUG_ON is bad practice except in the most unrecoverable
scenario. There is nothing about this scenario that prevents the driver
from recovering and carrying on.

Remove the BUG_ON in question from ibmvfc_get_event() and return a NULL
pointer in the case of an empty event pool. Update all call sites to
ibmvfc_get_event() to check for a NULL pointer and perfrom the appropriate
failure or recovery action.
Daten sind bereitgestellt durch National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
LinuxLinux Kernel Version < 5.15.140
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.16 < 6.1.64
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.2 < 6.5.13
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.6 < 6.6.3
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EPSS Metriken
Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.25% 0.162
CVSS Metriken
Quelle Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector String
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 5.5 1.8 3.6
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/88984ec4792766df5a9de7a2ff2b5f281f94c7d4
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8bbe784c2ff28d56ca0c548aaf3e584edc77052d
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b39f2d10b86d0af353ea339e5815820026bca48f
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d2af4ef80601224b90630c1ddc7cd2c7c8ab4dd8
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e1d1f79b1929dce470a5dc9281c574cd58e8c6c0
Patch