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GHSA-734C-P7QF-QCFG

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-06-18 12:30 – Updated: 2025-11-19 15:31

Details

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

scsi: qla2xxx: Fix crash due to stale SRB access around I/O timeouts

Ensure SRB is returned during I/O timeout error escalation. If that is not possible fail the escalation path.

Following crash stack was seen:

BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 0000002f56aa90f8 IP: qla_chk_edif_rx_sa_delete_pending+0x14/0x30 [qla2xxx] Call Trace: ? qla2x00_status_entry+0x19f/0x1c50 [qla2xxx] ? qla2x00_start_sp+0x116/0x1170 [qla2xxx] ? dma_pool_alloc+0x1d6/0x210 ? mempool_alloc+0x54/0x130 ? qla24xx_process_response_queue+0x548/0x12b0 [qla2xxx] ? qla_do_work+0x2d/0x40 [qla2xxx] ? process_one_work+0x14c/0x390

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


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

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  "modified": "2025-11-19T15:31:28Z",
  "published": "2025-06-18T12:30:47Z",
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CVE-2022-50098 (GCVE-0-2022-50098)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-06-18 11:02 – Updated: 2026-08-05 08:57

Title

scsi: qla2xxx: Fix crash due to stale SRB access around I/O timeouts

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: qla2xxx: Fix crash due to stale SRB access around I/O timeouts Ensure SRB is returned during I/O timeout error escalation. If that is not possible fail the escalation path. Following crash stack was seen: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 0000002f56aa90f8 IP: qla_chk_edif_rx_sa_delete_pending+0x14/0x30 [qla2xxx] Call Trace: ? qla2x00_status_entry+0x19f/0x1c50 [qla2xxx] ? qla2x00_start_sp+0x116/0x1170 [qla2xxx] ? dma_pool_alloc+0x1d6/0x210 ? mempool_alloc+0x54/0x130 ? qla24xx_process_response_queue+0x548/0x12b0 [qla2xxx] ? qla_do_work+0x2d/0x40 [qla2xxx] ? process_one_work+0x14c/0x390

Severity

8.8 (High)


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

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b7bae3886a30d258b…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b70553175d0f94ebd…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7dcd49c42b14717dd…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c39587bc0abaf1659…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: d74595278f4ab192af66d9e60a9087464638beee , < b7bae3886a30d258b5b4fee26647043d68da3661 (git) Affected: d74595278f4ab192af66d9e60a9087464638beee , < b70553175d0f94ebd73670bc16ade90bd7f7d76f (git) Affected: d74595278f4ab192af66d9e60a9087464638beee , < 7dcd49c42b14717dd668fd73b503d241fdf82439 (git) Affected: d74595278f4ab192af66d9e60a9087464638beee , < c39587bc0abaf16593f7abcdf8aeec3c038c7d52 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 4.10 Unaffected: 0 , < 4.10 (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.61 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.18.18 , ≤ 5.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.19.2 , ≤ 5.19.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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