# CVE-2019-12456: An issue was discovered in the MPT3COMMAND case in \_ctl\_ioctl\_main in drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas\_ctl.c in the Linux kernel through 5.1.5.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2019-05-30 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

An issue was discovered in the MPT3COMMAND case in _ctl_ioctl_main in drivers/scsi/mpt3sas/mpt3sas_ctl.c in the Linux kernel through 5.1.5. It allows local users to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact by changing the value of ioc_number between two kernel reads of that value, aka a "double fetch" vulnerability. NOTE: a third party reports that this is unexploitable because the doubly fetched value is not used

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mkp/scsi.git/commit/?h=5.3/scsi-queue&id=86e5aca7fa2927060839f3e3b40c8bd65a7e8d1e
- https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/5/29/1164
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MDURACJVGIBIYBSGDZJTRDPX46H5WPZW/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OBJHGQXA4PQ5EOGCOXEH3KFDNVZ2I4X7/
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00039.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00040.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00048.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1717182
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K84310302
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K84310302?utm_source=f5support&amp%3Butm_medium=RSS

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