CVE-2021-46963 (GCVE-0-2021-46963)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-02-27 18:47 – Updated: 2026-08-05 08:45
VLAI
Title
scsi: qla2xxx: Fix crash in qla2xxx_mqueuecommand()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: qla2xxx: Fix crash in qla2xxx_mqueuecommand() RIP: 0010:kmem_cache_free+0xfa/0x1b0 Call Trace: qla2xxx_mqueuecommand+0x2b5/0x2c0 [qla2xxx] scsi_queue_rq+0x5e2/0xa40 __blk_mq_try_issue_directly+0x128/0x1d0 blk_mq_request_issue_directly+0x4e/0xb0 Fix incorrect call to free srb in qla2xxx_mqueuecommand(), as srb is now allocated by upper layers. This fixes smatch warning of srb unintended free.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/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 2024-02-27 20:13 UTC
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 6843 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 64a8c5018a4b21b04a756a56c495ef47c14e92d9 , < c5ab9b67d8b061de74e2ca51bf787ee599bd7f89 (git)
Affected: dea6ee7173039d489977c9ed92e3749154615db4 , < 77509a238547863040a42d57c72403f7d4c89a8f (git)
Affected: af2a0c51b1205327f55a7e82e530403ae1d42cbb , < 702cdaa2c6283c135ef16d52e0e4e3c1005aa538 (git)
Affected: af2a0c51b1205327f55a7e82e530403ae1d42cbb , < 80ef24175df2cba3860d0369d1c662b49ee2de56 (git)
Affected: af2a0c51b1205327f55a7e82e530403ae1d42cbb , < a73208e3244127ef9f2cdf24e4adb947aaa32053 (git)
Affected: af2a0c51b1205327f55a7e82e530403ae1d42cbb , < 6641df81ab799f28a5d564f860233dd26cca0d93 (git)
Affected: 4a1cc2f71bc57cf8dee6f58e7d2355a43aabb312 (git)
Affected: 4.19.90 , < 4.19.191 (semver)
Affected: 5.4.4 , < 5.4.118 (semver)
Affected: 5.3.17 , < 5.4 (semver)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.5
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.5 (semver)
Unaffected: 4.19.191 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.118 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.36 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.11.20 , ≤ 5.11.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.12.3 , ≤ 5.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.13 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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