# CVE-2024-46673: scsi: aacraid: Fix double-free on probe failure

- Severity: CVSS 7.8 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-09-13 · Updated: 2026-08-05

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 2.6.15

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: aacraid: Fix double-free on probe failure aac_probe_one() calls hardware-specific init functions through the aac_driver_ident::init pointer, all of which eventually call down to aac_init_adapter(). If aac_init_adapter() fails after allocating memory for aac_dev::queues, it frees the memory but does not clear that member. After the hardware-specific init function returns an error, aac_probe_one() goes down an error path that frees the memory pointed to by aac_dev::queues, resulting.in a double-free.

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## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d237c7d06ffddcdb5d36948c527dc01284388218
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/564e1986b00c5f05d75342f8407f75f0a17b94df
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9e96dea7eff6f2bbcd0b42a098012fc66af9eb69
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/85449b28ff6a89c4513115e43ddcad949b5890c9
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/60962c3d8e18e5d8dfa16df788974dd7f35bd87a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8a3995a3ffeca280a961b59f5c99843d81b15929
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4b540ec7c0045c2d01c4e479f34bbc8f147afa4c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/919ddf8336f0b84c0453bac583808c9f165a85c2

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