scsi: lpfc: Fix link down processing to address NULL pointer dereference (Linux Linux)

CVE-2021-47183
HIGH 8.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.34 % · percentile 27 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Modified

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: lpfc: Fix link down processing to address NULL pointer dereference If an FC link down transition while PLOGIs are outstanding to fabric well known addresses, outstanding ABTS requests may result in a NULL pointer dereference. Driver unload requests may hang with repeated "2878" log messages. The Link down processing results in ABTS requests for outstanding ELS requests. The Abort WQEs are sent for the ELSs before the driver had set the link state to down. Thus the driver is sending the Abort with the expectation that an ABTS will be sent on the wire. The Abort request is stalled waiting for the link to come up. In some conditions the driver may auto-complete the ELSs thus if the link does come up, the Abort completions may reference an invalid structure. Fix by ensuring that Abort set the flag to avoid link traffic if issued due to conditions where the link failed.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-476 — NULL Pointer Dereference

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 70f3c073362ef7b5e55c92b83eb2dd9a7fb4e9bf < 04c1af683270e4709a594bb1691b8800b945035a ; affected 70f3c073362ef7b5e55c92b83eb2dd9a7fb4e9bf < 28de48a7cea495ab48082d9ff4ef63f7cb4e563a ; affected 70f3c073362ef7b5e55c92b83eb2dd9a7fb4e9bf < 1854f53ccd88ad4e7568ddfafafffe71f1ceb0a6
Linux · Linuxaffected 2.6.38 ; unaffected 0 < 2.6.38 ; unaffected 5.10.241 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.5 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 5.16 ≤ *

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD