CVE-2023-54184 - CVE House

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Status published Unknown CVE-2023-54184

scsi: target: iscsit: Free cmds before session free

0 CVSS

Vulnerability Description

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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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References

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Affected Vendor

Linux

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Affected Software

Linux

Vulnerable Versions:

988e3a85463d9b6dabc681df3f8f131b23c19953, 3.12, 0, 5.4.244, 5.10.181, 5.15.113, 6.1.30, 6.3.4, 6.4

Timeline

Official Publish: December 30th, 2025

Last Modified: May 11th, 2026

Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

No vector data available

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

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