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GHSA-XH6P-H9XV-5C64

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-07-09 12:31 – Updated: 2025-11-19 18:31

Details

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

scsi: fnic: Fix crash in fnic_wq_cmpl_handler when FDMI times out

When both the RHBA and RPA FDMI requests time out, fnic reuses a frame to send ABTS for each of them. On send completion, this causes an attempt to free the same frame twice that leads to a crash.

Fix crash by allocating separate frames for RHBA and RPA, and modify ABTS logic accordingly.

Tested by checking MDS for FDMI information.

Tested by using instrumented driver to:

Drop PLOGI response
Drop RHBA response
Drop RPA response
Drop RHBA and RPA response
Drop PLOGI response + ABTS response
Drop RHBA response + ABTS response
Drop RPA response + ABTS response
Drop RHBA and RPA response + ABTS response for both of them

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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  "id": "GHSA-xh6p-h9xv-5c64",
  "modified": "2025-11-19T18:31:15Z",
  "published": "2025-07-09T12:31:34Z",
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CVE-2025-38238 (GCVE-0-2025-38238)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-09 10:42 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:00

Title

scsi: fnic: Fix crash in fnic_wq_cmpl_handler when FDMI times out

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: fnic: Fix crash in fnic_wq_cmpl_handler when FDMI times out When both the RHBA and RPA FDMI requests time out, fnic reuses a frame to send ABTS for each of them. On send completion, this causes an attempt to free the same frame twice that leads to a crash. Fix crash by allocating separate frames for RHBA and RPA, and modify ABTS logic accordingly. Tested by checking MDS for FDMI information. Tested by using instrumented driver to: - Drop PLOGI response - Drop RHBA response - Drop RPA response - Drop RHBA and RPA response - Drop PLOGI response + ABTS response - Drop RHBA response + ABTS response - Drop RPA response + ABTS response - Drop RHBA and RPA response + ABTS response for both of them

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 Scorecard

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/09679e9abedfbc5a2…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a35b29bdedb4d2ae3…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 09c1e6ab4ab2a107d96f119950dc330e446dc2b0 , < 09679e9abedfbc5a2590759a1a7893c1c26e6044 (git) Affected: 09c1e6ab4ab2a107d96f119950dc330e446dc2b0 , < a35b29bdedb4d2ae3160d4d6684a6f1ecd9ca7c2 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 6.14 Unaffected: 0 , < 6.14 (semver) Unaffected: 6.15.5 , ≤ 6.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.16 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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