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GHSA-RXCF-2W24-J9PQ

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-05-21 15:31 – Updated: 2024-12-31 21:30

Details

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

scsi: iscsi: Fix iscsi_task use after free

Commit d39df158518c ("scsi: iscsi: Have abort handler get ref to conn") added iscsi_get_conn()/iscsi_put_conn() calls during abort handling but then also changed the handling of the case where we detect an already completed task where we now end up doing a goto to the common put/cleanup code. This results in a iscsi_task use after free, because the common cleanup code will do a put on the iscsi_task.

This reverts the goto and moves the iscsi_get_conn() to after we've checked if the iscsi_task is valid.

Severity

7.8 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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CVE-2021-47427 (GCVE-0-2021-47427)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-05-21 15:04 – Updated: 2026-08-05 08:47

Title

scsi: iscsi: Fix iscsi_task use after free

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: iscsi: Fix iscsi_task use after free Commit d39df158518c ("scsi: iscsi: Have abort handler get ref to conn") added iscsi_get_conn()/iscsi_put_conn() calls during abort handling but then also changed the handling of the case where we detect an already completed task where we now end up doing a goto to the common put/cleanup code. This results in a iscsi_task use after free, because the common cleanup code will do a put on the iscsi_task. This reverts the goto and moves the iscsi_get_conn() to after we've checked if the iscsi_task is valid.

Severity

9.8 (Critical)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-09-10 15:37 UTC

Assigner

Linux mitre root Scorecard

References

2 references

URL	Tags
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/258aad75c62146453…

Impacted products

2 products

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Linux	Linux	Affected: 5.14 Unaffected: 0 , < 5.14 (semver) Unaffected: 5.14.12 , ≤ 5.14.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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