Description
drivers/scsi/bfa/bfa_core.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.35 does not initialize a certain port data structure, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via read operations on an fc_host statistics file.
Fixed in Linux distributions
Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.
Red Hat
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| RHEL 5 | kernel +12 | 2.6.18-238.el5 | RHSA-2011:0017 |
Advisories 1
- RHSA-2011:0017 Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 kernel security and bug fix update Red Hat Security Advisories (RHSA) · Jun 26, 2026
References
- 45262 vdb-entry
- [oss-security] 20101209 Re: CVE request: kernel: bfa driver sysfs crash mailing-list
- 20111013 VMSA-2011-0012 VMware ESXi and ESX updates to third party libraries and ESX Service Console mailing-list
- RHSA-2011:0017 vendor-advisory
- 46397 third-party-advisory
- [linux-scsi] 20100521 [PATCH 1/2] bfa: fix system crash when reading sysfs fc_host statistics mailing-list
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.35
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html
- 42884 third-party-advisory
- [oss-security] 20101208 CVE request: kernel: bfa driver sysfs crash mailing-list
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=661182
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=7873ca4e4401f0ecd8868bf1543113467e6bae61