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GHSA-QW8C-GXP5-84J6

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-08-17 09:30 – Updated: 2025-11-04 00:31

Details

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

scsi: qla2xxx: Fix for possible memory corruption

Init Control Block is dereferenced incorrectly. Correctly dereference ICB

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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CVE-2024-42288 (GCVE-0-2024-42288)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-08-17 09:08 – Updated: 2026-08-05 11:36

Title

scsi: qla2xxx: Fix for possible memory corruption

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: qla2xxx: Fix for possible memory corruption Init Control Block is dereferenced incorrectly. Correctly dereference ICB

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 2024-09-10 16:11 UTC

Assigner

Linux CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 7018 records in the last 180 days details

References

9 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dae67169cb35a37ec…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/87db8d7b7520e99de…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b0302ffc74123b6a9…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2a15b59a2c5afac89…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/571d7f2a08836698c…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8192c533e89d9fb69…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c03d740152f78e869…
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025…
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 0645cb8350cdb60bfbf91caa722984b81c215add , < dae67169cb35a37ecccf60cfcd6bf93a1f4f5efb (git) Affected: 0645cb8350cdb60bfbf91caa722984b81c215add , < 87db8d7b7520e99de71791260989f06f9c94953d (git) Affected: 0645cb8350cdb60bfbf91caa722984b81c215add , < b0302ffc74123b6a99d7d1896fcd9b2e4072d9ce (git) Affected: 0645cb8350cdb60bfbf91caa722984b81c215add , < 2a15b59a2c5afac89696e44acf5bbfc0599c6c5e (git) Affected: 0645cb8350cdb60bfbf91caa722984b81c215add , < 571d7f2a08836698c2fb0d792236424575b9829b (git) Affected: 0645cb8350cdb60bfbf91caa722984b81c215add , < 8192c533e89d9fb69b2490398939236b78cda79b (git) Affected: 0645cb8350cdb60bfbf91caa722984b81c215add , < c03d740152f78e86945a75b2ad541bf972fab92a (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 4.20 Unaffected: 0 , < 4.20 (semver) Unaffected: 5.4.282 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.224 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.165 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.103 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.44 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.10.3 , ≤ 6.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.11 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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