CVE-2021-47337 scsi: core: Fix bad pointer dereference when ehandler kthread is invalid

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: core: Fix bad pointer dereference when ehandler kthread is invalid Commit 66a834d09293 "scsi: core: Fix error handling of scsihostalloc" changed the allocation logic to call putdevice to perform host cleanup with the...

CVE-2021-47337

The CVE-2021-47337 issue is in the Linux kernel SCSI core path: when an error arises during scsi_host_alloc() and the error-handling ehandler thread fails to spawn, shost->ehandler may be set to ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM) and scsi_host_dev_release() would call kthread_stop() on a NULL/invalid pointer, r...

CVE-2021-28691

Guest triggered use-after-free in Linux xen-netback A malicious or buggy network PV frontend can force Linux netback to disable the interface and terminate the receive kernel thread associated with queue 0 in response to the frontend sending a malformed packet. Such kernel thread termination will...