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CVE-2022-50840

kernel: scsi: snic: Fix possible UAF in snic_tgt_create()

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Severity

Unknown

Red Hat Product Security

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CVSS

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Published · December 30, 2025

Updated · June 30, 2026

Description

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

scsi: snic: Fix possible UAF in snic_tgt_create()

Smatch reports a warning as follows:

drivers/scsi/snic/snic_disc.c:307 snic_tgt_create() warn: '&tgt->list' not removed from list

If device_add() fails in snic_tgt_create(), tgt will be freed, but tgt->list will not be removed from snic->disc.tgt_list, then list traversal may cause UAF.

Remove from snic->disc.tgt_list before free().

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CWE not specified