# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-54154"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-24T13:07:04.721Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-23T15:33:43.772Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:03.413Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-54154"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-54154.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-54154"
title: "scsi: target: core: Fix target_cmd_counter leak"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nscsi: target: core: Fix target_cmd_counter leak\n\nThe target_cmd_counter struct allocated via target_alloc_cmd_counter() is\nnever freed, resulting in leaks across various transport types, e.g.:\n\n unreferenced object 0xffff88801f920120 (size 96):\n  comm \"sh\", pid 102, jiffies 4294892535 (age 713.412s)\n  hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n    07 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................\n    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 38 01 92 1f 80 88 ff ff  ........8.......\n  backtrace:\n    [\u003c00000000e58a6252\u003e] kmalloc_trace+0x11/0x20\n    [\u003c0000000043af4b2f\u003e] target_alloc_cmd_counter+0x17/0x90 [target_core_mod]\n    [\u003c000000007da2dfa7\u003e] target_setup_session+0x2d/0x140 [target_core_mod]\n    [\u003c0000000068feef86\u003e] tcm_loop_tpg_nexus_store+0x19b/0x350 [tcm_loop]\n    [\u003c000000006a80e021\u003e] configfs_write_iter+0xb1/0x120\n    [\u003c00000000e9f4d860\u003e] vfs_write+0x2e4/0x3c0\n    [\u003c000000008143433b\u003e] ksys_write+0x80/0xb0\n    [\u003c00000000a7df29b2\u003e] do_syscall_64+0x42/0x90\n    [\u003c0000000053f45fb8\u003e] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8\n\nFree the structure alongside the corresponding iscsit_conn / se_sess\nparent."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"76b77646f17118f5babe93c032e6b7a53bbde3b9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1cd41d1669bcbc5052afa897f85608a62ff3fb30"},{"version":"becd9be6069e7b183c084f460f0eb363e43cc487","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f84639c5ac5f4f95b3992da1af4ff382ebf2e819"},{"version":"becd9be6069e7b183c084f460f0eb363e43cc487","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d14e3e553e05cb763964c991fe6acb0a6a1c6f9c"},{"version":"bc5ebf93ae23a928303b3643c6f4c4da2f769e7c","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"1eaaf1b828cdaa58abccc68962d24005fd5e8852","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"6.1.28","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1.55"},{"version":"6.2.15","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.3"},{"version":"6.3.2","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.4"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.4","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.4"},{"version":"6.1.55","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.5.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.5.*"},{"version":"6.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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