CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-38700
5.5 MEDIUM
Official page ↗
- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-09-04
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: libiscsi: Initialize iscsi_conn->dd_data only if memory is allocated
In case of an ib_fast_reg_mr allocation failure during iSER setup, the
machine hits a panic because iscsi_conn->dd_data is initialized
unconditionally, even when no memory is allocated (dd_size == 0). This
leads invalid pointer dereference during connection teardown.
Fix by setting iscsi_conn->dd_data only if memory is actually allocated.
Panic trace:
------------
iser: iser_create_fastreg_desc: Failed to allocate ib_fast_reg_mr err=-12
iser: iser_alloc_rx_descriptors: failed allocating rx descriptors / data buffers
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: fffffffffffffff8
RIP: 0010:swake_up_locked.part.5+0xa/0x40
Call Trace:
complete+0x31/0x40
iscsi_iser_conn_stop+0x88/0xb0 [ib_iser]
iscsi_stop_conn+0x66/0xc0 [scsi_transport_iscsi]
iscsi_if_stop_conn+0x14a/0x150 [scsi_transport_iscsi]
iscsi_if_rx+0x1135/0x1834 [scsi_transport_iscsi]
? netlink_lookup+0x12f/0x1b0
? netlink_deliver_tap+0x2c/0x200
netlink_unicast+0x1ab/0x280
netlink_sendmsg+0x257/0x4f0
? _copy_from_user+0x29/0x60
sock_sendmsg+0x5f/0x70
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 2.6.27 < 5.4.297)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.241)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.190)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.149)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.103)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.43)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.15.11)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.16 < 6.16.2)
• debian debian linux 11.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2b242ea14386a510010eabfbfc3ce81a101f3802 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/35782c32528d82aa21f84cb5ceb2abd3526a8159 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3ea3a256ed81f95ab0f3281a0e234b01a9cae605 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/66a373f50b4249d57f5a88c7be9676f9d5884865 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9ea6d961566c7d762ed0204b06db05756fdda3b6 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a145c269dc5380c063a20a0db7e6df2995962e9d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a33d42b7fc24fe03f239fbb0880dd5b4b4b97c19 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f53af99f441ee79599d8df6113a7144d74cf9153 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fd5aad080edb501ab5c84b7623d612d0e3033403 Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-032379.html cert-portal.siemens.com