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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-49863"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-10-21T18:01:07.166Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T20:40:41.367Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:16.009Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-49863"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-49863.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-49863"
title: "vhost/scsi: null-ptr-dereference in vhost_scsi_get_req()"
summary: "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-\u003ereq` 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-\u003etarget` 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-\u003emutex` 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 \u003c0f\u003e 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 \u003cTASK\u003e\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 \u003c/TASK\u003e\n---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---\n\nLet's add a check in vhost_scsi_get_req.\n\n[whitespace fixes]"
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