CVE-2023-54184 (GCVE-0-2023-54184)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-30 12:08 – Updated: 2026-08-05 09:17
VLAI
Title
scsi: target: iscsit: Free cmds before session free
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: target: iscsit: Free cmds before session free Commands from recovery entries are freed after session has been closed. That leads to use-after-free at command free or NPE with such call trace: Time2Retain timer expired for SID: 1, cleaning up iSCSI session. BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000140 RIP: 0010:sbitmap_queue_clear+0x3a/0xa0 Call Trace: target_release_cmd_kref+0xd1/0x1f0 [target_core_mod] transport_generic_free_cmd+0xd1/0x180 [target_core_mod] iscsit_free_cmd+0x53/0xd0 [iscsi_target_mod] iscsit_free_connection_recovery_entries+0x29d/0x320 [iscsi_target_mod] iscsit_close_session+0x13a/0x140 [iscsi_target_mod] iscsit_check_post_dataout+0x440/0x440 [iscsi_target_mod] call_timer_fn+0x24/0x140 Move cleanup of recovery enrties to before session freeing.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 988e3a85463d9b6dabc681df3f8f131b23c19953 , < 89f5055f9b0b57c7e7f02e32df95ef401f809b71 (git)
Affected: 988e3a85463d9b6dabc681df3f8f131b23c19953 , < 4621e24c9257c6379343bf0c11b473817cf7edcd (git)
Affected: 988e3a85463d9b6dabc681df3f8f131b23c19953 , < 1911cca5916b6e106de7afa3ec0a38447158216c (git)
Affected: 988e3a85463d9b6dabc681df3f8f131b23c19953 , < a7a4def6c7046e090bb10c6d550fdeb487db98ba (git)
Affected: 988e3a85463d9b6dabc681df3f8f131b23c19953 , < 4ce221d295f53e6c6b835ab33181e735482c9aac (git)
Affected: 988e3a85463d9b6dabc681df3f8f131b23c19953 , < d8990b5a4d065f38f35d69bcd627ec5a7f8330ca (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 3.12
Unaffected: 0 , < 3.12 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.244 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.181 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.113 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.30 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.3.4 , ≤ 6.3.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.4 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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