CVE Catalog

CVE-2022-50098

HighCVSS 8.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.29%

22th percentile - higher than 22% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the SCSI qla2xxx driver has a bug causing a crash due to accessing a stale SRB during I/O timeout escalation. This can lead to memory protection faults and system crash. The fix ensures SRB is returned during timeout error escalation or fails the escalation path.

Risk Assessment

The vulnerability can cause system crashes (kernel panic) in environments using qla2xxx Fibre Channel adapters, resulting in service disruption.

Recommendation

Install the Linux kernel patch containing the fix for the qla2xxx driver. Verify driver compatibility with your hardware and apply the update in production systems.

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Original NVD description (English source)

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

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