{"id":"CVE-2024-49863","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2024-49863","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T03:29:22.227Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vhost/scsi: null-ptr-dereference in vhost_scsi_get_req() Since commit 3f8ca2e115e5 (\"vhost/scsi: Extract common handling code from control queue handler\") a null pointer dereference bug…","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvhost/scsi: null-ptr-dereference in vhost_scsi_get_req()\n\nSince commit 3f8ca2e115e5 (\"vhost/scsi: Extract common handling code\nfrom control queue handler\") a null pointer dereference bug can be\ntriggered when guest sends an SCSI AN request.\n\nIn vhost_scsi_ctl_handle_vq(), `vc.target` is assigned with\n`&v_req.tmf.lun[1]` within a switch-case block and is then passed to\nvhost_scsi_get_req() which extracts `vc->req` and `tpg`. However, for\na `VIRTIO_SCSI_T_AN_*` request, tpg is not required, so `vc.target` is\nset to NULL in this branch. Later, in vhost_scsi_get_req(),\n`vc->target` is dereferenced without being checked, leading to a null\npointer dereference bug. This bug can be triggered from guest.\n\nWhen this bug occurs, the vhost_worker process is killed while holding\n`vq->mutex` and the corresponding tpg will remain occupied\nindefinitely.\n\nBelow is the KASAN report:\nOops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address\n0xdffffc0000000000: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN NOPTI\nKASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]\nCPU: 1 PID: 840 Comm: poc Not tainted 6.10.0+ #1\nHardware name: QEMU Ubuntu 24.04 PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS\n1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014\nRIP: 0010:vhost_scsi_get_req+0x165/0x3a0\nCode: 00 fc ff df 48 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 80 3c 02 00 0f 85 2b 02 00 00\n48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 4d 8b 65 30 4c 89 e2 48 c1 ea 03 <0f> b6\n04 02 4c 89 e2 83 e2 07 38 d0 7f 08 84 c0 0f 85 be 01 00 00\nRSP: 0018:ffff888017affb50 EFLAGS: 00010246\nRAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: ffff88801b000000 RCX: 0000000000000000\nRDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff888017affcb8\nRBP: ffff888017affb80 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000\nR10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000\nR13: ffff888017affc88 R14: ffff888017affd1c R15: ffff888017993000\nFS:  000055556e076500(0000) GS:ffff88806b100000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\nCS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: 00000000200027c0 CR3: 0000000010ed0004 CR4: 0000000000370ef0\nCall Trace:\n <TASK>\n ? show_regs+0x86/0xa0\n ? die_addr+0x4b/0xd0\n ? exc_general_protection+0x163/0x260\n ? asm_exc_general_protection+0x27/0x30\n ? vhost_scsi_get_req+0x165/0x3a0\n vhost_scsi_ctl_handle_vq+0x2a4/0xca0\n ? __pfx_vhost_scsi_ctl_handle_vq+0x10/0x10\n ? __switch_to+0x721/0xeb0\n ? __schedule+0xda5/0x5710\n ? __kasan_check_write+0x14/0x30\n ? _raw_spin_lock+0x82/0xf0\n vhost_scsi_ctl_handle_kick+0x52/0x90\n vhost_run_work_list+0x134/0x1b0\n vhost_task_fn+0x121/0x350\n...\n </TASK>\n---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---\n\nLet's add a check in vhost_scsi_get_req.\n\n[whitespace fixes]","published":"2024-10-21T18:15:06.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T08:00:37.000Z","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":0.00286,"percentile":0.20972,"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 (0.29%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/00fb5b23e1c9cdbe496f5cd6b40367cb895f6c93","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/221af82f606d928ccef19a16d35633c63026f1be","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/25613e6d9841a1f9fb985be90df921fa99f800de","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/46128370a72c431df733af5ebb065c4d48c9ad39","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/61517f33e76d2c5247c1e61e668693afe5b67e6f","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6592347f06e2b19a624270a85ad4b3ae48c3b241","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ace9c778a214da9c98d7b69d904d1b0816f4f681","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00001.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00002.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-49863","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."}