{"id":"AZL-52937","summary":"CVE-2024-50153 affecting package kernel for versions less than 5.15.173.1-1","details":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nscsi: target: core: Fix null-ptr-deref in target_alloc_device()\n\nThere is a null-ptr-deref issue reported by KASAN:\n\nBUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in target_alloc_device+0xbc4/0xbe0 [target_core_mod]\n...\n kasan_report+0xb9/0xf0\n target_alloc_device+0xbc4/0xbe0 [target_core_mod]\n core_dev_setup_virtual_lun0+0xef/0x1f0 [target_core_mod]\n target_core_init_configfs+0x205/0x420 [target_core_mod]\n do_one_initcall+0xdd/0x4e0\n...\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e\n\nIn target_alloc_device(), if allocing memory for dev queues fails, then\ndev will be freed by dev-\u003etransport-\u003efree_device(), but dev-\u003etransport\nis not initialized at that time, which will lead to a null pointer\nreference problem.\n\nFixing this bug by freeing dev with hba-\u003ebackend-\u003eops-\u003efree_device().","modified":"2026-04-01T05:17:54.972748Z","published":"2024-11-07T10:15:06Z","upstream":["CVE-2024-50153"],"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-50153"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"kernel","ecosystem":"Azure Linux:2","purl":"pkg:rpm/azure-linux/kernel"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"5.15.173.1-1"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-52937.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}