System crash via truncated zfcp request identifier
Published May 1, 2025 · Updated Aug 5, 2026
Double free in the Linux kernel zfcp SCSI driver allows local users to crash s390x systems during adapter recovery or shutdown. The zfcp_fsf_req_send() function stores a 64-bit FSF request identifier in a signed 32-bit int, so truncation or sign extension prevents zfcp_reqlist_find_rm() from removing a failed request from its hash table. The stale entry is freed again when the adapter resets or shuts down after zfcp_qdio_send() fails; the failure requires a zfcp-backed s390x system and an identifier with bit 31 set or a value beyond 32 bits.
Summary
What happened
Double free in the Linux kernel zfcp SCSI driver allows local users to crash s390x systems during adapter recovery or shutdown. The zfcp_fsf_req_send() function stores a 64-bit FSF request identifier in a signed 32-bit int, so truncation or sign extension prevents zfcp_reqlist_find_rm() from removing a failed request from its hash table. The stale entry is freed again when the adapter resets or shuts down after zfcp_qdio_send() fails; the failure requires a zfcp-backed s390x system and an identifier with bit 31 set or a value beyond 32 bits.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2022-49789
- Published
- May 1, 2025
- Updated
- Aug 5, 2026
- Vendor
- The Linux Kernel Organization
- Product
- Linux
- Classifications
- CWE-415, T1499
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- May 1, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 5, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=2.6.34
- Affected versionversion=e60a6d69f1f84c2ef1cc63aefaadfe7ae9f12934 <0954256e970ecf371b03a6c9af2cf91b9c4085ff
- Affected versionversion=e60a6d69f1f84c2ef1cc63aefaadfe7ae9f12934 <11edbdee4399401f533adda9bffe94567aa08b96
- Affected versionversion=e60a6d69f1f84c2ef1cc63aefaadfe7ae9f12934 <1bf8ed585501bb2dd0b5f67c824eab45adfbdccd
- Affected versionversion=e60a6d69f1f84c2ef1cc63aefaadfe7ae9f12934 <90a49a6b015fa439cd62e45121390284c125a91f
- Affected versionversion=e60a6d69f1f84c2ef1cc63aefaadfe7ae9f12934 <d2c7d8f58e9cde8ac8d1f75e9d66c2a813ffe0ab
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