# CVE-2024-42289: scsi: qla2xxx: During vport delete send async logout explicitly

> A null pointer dereference in the qla2xxx SCSI driver during vport deletion causes a kernel crash, leading to denial of service.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 17 Aug 2024
- **Updated:** 23 May 2026
- **Also known as:** AZL-48614, BELL-CVE-2024-42289, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-42289, GHSA-xv7c-g3v3-rjqw, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-42289

## What is CVE-2024-42289?

CVE-2024-42289 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 17 Aug 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

scsi: qla2xxx: During vport delete send async logout explicitly

During vport delete, it is observed that during unload we hit a crash
because of stale entries in outstanding command array.  For all these stale
I/O entries, eh_abort was issued and aborted (fast_fail_io = 2009h) but
I/Os could not complete while vport delete is in process of deleting.

  BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 000000000000001c
  #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
  #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
  PGD 0 P4D 0
  Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
  Workqueue: qla2xxx_wq qla_do_work [qla2xxx]
  RIP: 0010:dma_direct_unmap_sg+0x51/0x1e0
  RSP: 0018:ffffa1e1e150fc68 EFLAGS: 00010046
  RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000021 RCX: 0000000000000001
  RDX: 0000000000000021 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff8ce208a7a0d0
  RBP: ffff8ce208a7a0d0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffff8ce378aac9c8
  R10: ffff8ce378aac8a0 R11: ffffa1e1e150f9d8 R12: 0000000000000000
  R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff8ce378aac9c8 R15: 0000000000000000
  FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8d217f000000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
  CR2: 000000000000001c CR3: 0000002089acc000 CR4: 0000000000350ee0
  Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  qla2xxx_qpair_sp_free_dma+0x417/0x4e0
  ? qla2xxx_qpair_sp_compl+0x10d/0x1a0
  ? qla2x00_status_entry+0x768/0x2830
  ? newidle_balance+0x2f0/0x430
  ? dequeue_entity+0x100/0x3c0
  ? qla24xx_process_response_queue+0x6a1/0x19e0
  ? __schedule+0x2d5/0x1140
  ? qla_do_work+0x47/0x60
  ? process_one_work+0x267/0x440
  ? process_one_work+0x440/0x440
  ? worker_thread+0x2d/0x3d0
  ? process_one_work+0x440/0x440
  ? kthread+0x156/0x180
  ? set_kthread_struct+0x50/0x50
  ? ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
  </TASK>

Send out async logout explicitly for all the ports during vport delete.

Weakness: CWE-476 (NULL Pointer Dereference)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-42289?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2024-42289?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2024-42289 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-42289 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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- [CVE-2013-2094](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-2094/): Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation (high 8.4, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2026-53362](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-53362/): Linux Kernel Unspecified (high 7.8, exploited in the wild)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-42289 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-42289 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 17 Aug 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-42289 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-42289/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-42289/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-42289
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-42289
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-42289

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