{"id":"CVE-2024-50153","revision":"87fc04c14beb4281a46183ce851bee96","records":[{"revision":"87fc04c14beb4281a46183ce851bee96","observedAt":"2026-10-23T15:48:27.903+00:00","statement":{"source":"cve-program","id":"CVE-2024-50153","aliases":[],"title":"scsi: target: core: Fix null-ptr-deref in target_alloc_device()","description":"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->transport->free_device(), but dev->transport\nis not initialized at that time, which will lead to a null pointer\nreference problem.\n\nFixing this bug by freeing dev with hba->backend->ops->free_device().","state":0,"publishedAt":"2024-11-07T09:31:29.791+00:00","modifiedAt":"2026-10-15T00:57:17.321+00:00","affected":[{"ecosystem":"Vendor product","name":"Linux","ranges":[],"versions":[],"rawVersionEvidence":"{\n                    \"product\": \"Linux\",\n                    \"vendor\": \"Linux\",\n                    \"defaultStatus\": \"unaffected\",\n                    \"repo\": \"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git\",\n                    \"programFiles\": [\n                        \"drivers/target/target_core_device.c\"\n                    ],\n                    \"versions\": [\n                        {\n                            \"version\": \"008b936bbde3e87a611b3828a0d5d2a4f99026a0\",\n                            \"lessThan\": 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