CVE-2026-23216

high

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: target: iscsi: Fix use-after-free in iscsit_dec_conn_usage_count() In iscsit_dec_conn_usage_count(), the function calls complete() while holding the conn->conn_usage_lock. As soon as complete() is invoked, the waiter (such as iscsit_close_connection()) may wake up and proceed to free the iscsit_conn structure. If the waiter frees the memory before the current thread reaches spin_unlock_bh(), it results in a KASAN slab-use-after-free as the function attempts to release a lock within the already-freed connection structure. Fix this by releasing the spinlock before calling complete().

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ba684191437380a07b27666eb4e72748be1ea201

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9411a89e9e7135cc459178fa77a3f1d6191ae903

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8518f072fc92921418cd9ed4268dd4f3e9a8fd75

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/73b487d44bf4f92942629d578381f89c326ff77f

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/48fe983e92de2c59d143fe38362ad17ba23ec7f3

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3835e49e146a4e6e7787b29465f1a23379b6ec44

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/275016a551ba1a068a3bd6171b18611726b67110

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-02-18

Updated: 2026-02-18

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00024