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"cveId": "CVE-2023-54184",
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"state": "PUBLISHED",
"assignerShortName": "Linux",
"dateReserved": "2025-12-30T12:06:44.497Z",
"datePublished": "2025-12-30T12:08:54.528Z",
"dateUpdated": "2026-08-05T09:17:52.229Z"
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"value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nscsi: target: iscsit: Free cmds before session free\n\nCommands from recovery entries are freed after session has been closed.\nThat leads to use-after-free at command free or NPE with such call trace:\n\nTime2Retain timer expired for SID: 1, cleaning up iSCSI session.\nBUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000140\nRIP: 0010:sbitmap_queue_clear+0x3a/0xa0\nCall Trace:\n target_release_cmd_kref+0xd1/0x1f0 [target_core_mod]\n transport_generic_free_cmd+0xd1/0x180 [target_core_mod]\n iscsit_free_cmd+0x53/0xd0 [iscsi_target_mod]\n iscsit_free_connection_recovery_entries+0x29d/0x320 [iscsi_target_mod]\n iscsit_close_session+0x13a/0x140 [iscsi_target_mod]\n iscsit_check_post_dataout+0x440/0x440 [iscsi_target_mod]\n call_timer_fn+0x24/0x140\n\nMove cleanup of recovery enrties to before session freeing."
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"value": "AV:N - The LIO in-kernel iSCSI target (drivers/target/iscsi) serves remote initiators over TCP/3260, and the entire trigger sequence — ERL=2 login negotiation, issuing SCSI commands, and dropping the connection to strand them in a recovery entry — is performed purely with network PDUs from a remote peer.\nAC:L - The free-then-use ordering in iscsit_close_session() is unconditional, not a race, so a remote initiator deterministically reaches it by negotiating ErrorRecoveryLevel=2, leaving commands outstanding, and dropping the TCP connection until the Time2Retain timer expires; connection-recovery (default_erl=2) is a supported deployment configuration, i.e. part of the vulnerable configuration rather than a condition outside the attacker's control.\nPR:N - iscsi_conn_auth_required() defers entirely to the TPG/ACL authentication attribute, and iSCSI targets are routinely deployed with authentication disabled and/or generate_node_acls=1 (demo mode), letting any host that can reach TCP/3260 establish a normal session with no credentials whatsoever.\nUI:N - No action by any local user or administrator is needed; the attacker drives session setup, connection failure, and the Time2Retain expiry entirely from the network.\nS:U - The use-after-free corrupts kernel memory within the same security authority as the vulnerable kernel; no VM, IOMMU, or sandbox boundary is crossed.\nC:H - iscsit_free_cmd() dereferences struct iscsit_cmd objects living inside the kvfree'd sess_cmd_map and the freed se_sess, so contents of reallocated kernel memory are read back and acted upon; an attacker who reclaims that region with sprayed iSCSI data gains a controlled read/disclosure primitive.\nI:H - The UAF writes into freed memory (list_del_init on datain/r2t lists, cmd->conn = NULL, spinlock acquisition, sbitmap_queue_clear into the freed tag pool) and performs kfree() on cmd->buf_ptr and cmd->pdu_list pointers read out of freed memory, yielding arbitrary-free and heap-corruption primitives suitable for control-flow hijacking.\nA:H - The reported failure is a kernel NULL pointer dereference in sbitmap_queue_clear() from call_timer_fn() (softirq context), an immediate oops/panic that a remote attacker can trigger repeatedly by opening and abandoning sessions."
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