{"id":"CVE-2026-23216","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-23216","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T00:15:19.269Z","title":"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.","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nscsi: target: iscsi: Fix use-after-free in iscsit_dec_conn_usage_count()\n\nIn iscsit_dec_conn_usage_count(), the function calls complete() while\nholding the conn->conn_usage_lock. As soon as complete() is invoked, the\nwaiter (such as iscsit_close_connection()) may wake up and proceed to free\nthe iscsit_conn structure.\n\nIf the waiter frees the memory before the current thread reaches\nspin_unlock_bh(), it results in a KASAN slab-use-after-free as the function\nattempts to release a lock within the already-freed connection structure.\n\nFix this by releasing the spinlock before calling complete().","published":"2026-02-18T15:18:43.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-19T19:17:42.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-416"],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.00142,"percentile":0.03505,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.14%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/275016a551ba1a068a3bd6171b18611726b67110","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3835e49e146a4e6e7787b29465f1a23379b6ec44","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/48fe983e92de2c59d143fe38362ad17ba23ec7f3","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/73b487d44bf4f92942629d578381f89c326ff77f","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8518f072fc92921418cd9ed4268dd4f3e9a8fd75","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9411a89e9e7135cc459178fa77a3f1d6191ae903","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ba684191437380a07b27666eb4e72748be1ea201","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-23216","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}