{"id":"CVE-2022-49839","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2022-49839","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T19:52:39.891Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: scsi_transport_sas: Fix error handling in sas_phy_add() If transport_add_device() fails in sas_phy_add(), the kernel will crash trying to delete the device in…","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nscsi: scsi_transport_sas: Fix error handling in sas_phy_add()\n\nIf transport_add_device() fails in sas_phy_add(), the kernel will crash\ntrying to delete the device in transport_remove_device() called from\nsas_remove_host().\n\nUnable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000108\nCPU: 61 PID: 42829 Comm: rmmod Kdump: loaded Tainted: G        W          6.1.0-rc1+ #173\npstate: 60000005 (nZCv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)\npc : device_del+0x54/0x3d0\nlr : device_del+0x37c/0x3d0\nCall trace:\n device_del+0x54/0x3d0\n attribute_container_class_device_del+0x28/0x38\n transport_remove_classdev+0x6c/0x80\n attribute_container_device_trigger+0x108/0x110\n transport_remove_device+0x28/0x38\n sas_phy_delete+0x30/0x60 [scsi_transport_sas]\n do_sas_phy_delete+0x6c/0x80 [scsi_transport_sas]\n device_for_each_child+0x68/0xb0\n sas_remove_children+0x40/0x50 [scsi_transport_sas]\n sas_remove_host+0x20/0x38 [scsi_transport_sas]\n hisi_sas_remove+0x40/0x68 [hisi_sas_main]\n hisi_sas_v2_remove+0x20/0x30 [hisi_sas_v2_hw]\n platform_remove+0x2c/0x60\n\nFix this by checking and handling return value of transport_add_device()\nin sas_phy_add().","published":"2025-05-01T15:16:07.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T05:19:16.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-476"],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.00215,"percentile":0.11811,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.21%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/03aabcb88aeeb7221ddb6196ae84ad5fb17b743f","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2f21d653c648735657e23948b1d7ac7273de0f87","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d7bebf2dfb0dc97aac1fbace0910e557ecdb16f","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c736876ee294bb4f271d76a25cc7d70c8537bc5d","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-49839","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}