5.5

CVE-2023-52811

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.

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Data is provided by the 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
Zu dieser CVE wurde keine CISA KEV oder CERT.AT-Warnung gefunden.
EPSS Metriken
Type Source Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.01% 0.012
CVSS Metriken
Source 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.