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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-63888" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-07-19T14:55:00.803Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T20:17:54.825Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:20.586Z" 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-2026-63888" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-63888.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-63888" title: "scsi: target: iscsi: Fix CRC overread and double-free in iscsit_handle_text_cmd()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nscsi: target: iscsi: Fix CRC overread and double-free in iscsit_handle_text_cmd()\n\nTwo latent bugs in the Text-phase handler, both present since the\noriginal LIO integration in commit e48354ce078c (\"iscsi-target: Add\niSCSI fabric support for target v4.1\"):\n\n1) DataDigest CRC buffer overread (4 bytes past text_in).\n\n text_in is kzalloc()'d at ALIGN(payload_length, 4). rx_size is then\n incremented by ISCSI_CRC_LEN to make room for the received DataDigest\n in the iovec, but the same (now-bumped) rx_size is passed as the\n buffer length to iscsit_crc_buf():\n\n if (conn-\u003econn_ops-\u003eDataDigest) {\n ...\n rx_size += ISCSI_CRC_LEN;\n }\n ...\n if (conn-\u003econn_ops-\u003eDataDigest) {\n data_crc = iscsit_crc_buf(text_in, rx_size, 0, NULL);\n\n iscsit_crc_buf() walks rx_size bytes of text_in with crc32c(), so\n when DataDigest is negotiated it reads 4 bytes past the end of the\n text_in allocation. KASAN reproduces this directly on the unpatched\n mainline tree as slab-out-of-bounds in crc32c() called from the Text\n PDU path. The OOB bytes feed crc32c() and are then compared against\n the initiator-supplied checksum, so the value does not flow back to\n the attacker, but the kernel does read past the buffer on every Text\n PDU with DataDigest=CRC32C.\n\n Fix by passing the actual padded payload length\n (ALIGN(payload_length, 4)) that was used for the kzalloc().\n\n2) Stale cmd-\u003etext_in_ptr re-free (double-free) on ERL\u003e0 bad DataDigest\n drop.\n\n On DataDigest mismatch with ErrorRecoveryLevel \u003e 0 the handler\n silently drops the PDU and lets the initiator plug the CmdSN gap:\n\n kfree(text_in);\n return 0;\n\n cmd-\u003etext_in_ptr still points at the freed buffer. The next Text\n Request on the same ITT re-enters iscsit_setup_text_cmd(), which\n unconditionally does\n\n kfree(cmd-\u003etext_in_ptr);\n cmd-\u003etext_in_ptr = NULL;\n\n freeing the same pointer a second time. Session teardown via\n iscsit_release_cmd() has the same shape and hits the same double-free\n if the connection is dropped before a second Text Request arrives.\n\n On an unmodified mainline tree the bug-1 CRC overread fires first on\n the initial valid Text Request and perturbs the subsequent state, so\n #4 was isolated by building a kernel with only the bug-1 hunk of this\n patch applied plus temporary printk() observability around the three\n relevant kfree() sites. The observability prints are not part of\n this patch. On that build, a three-PDU Text Request sequence after\n login produces two back-to-back splats:\n\n BUG: KASAN: double-free in iscsit_setup_text_cmd+0x??\n BUG: KASAN: double-free in iscsit_release_cmd+0x??\n\n showing the same pointer freed in the ERL\u003e0 drop path and again in\n iscsit_setup_text_cmd() (next Text Request on the same ITT) and once\n more in iscsit_release_cmd() (session teardown). On distro kernels\n with CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED=y (default) the double-free\n becomes a remote kernel BUG(); on non-hardened kernels it corrupts\n the slab freelist.\n\n Fix by clearing cmd-\u003etext_in_ptr after the kfree() in the ERL\u003e0 drop\n path. With both hunks applied #4 is directly observable on the stock\n tree without observability printks; fixing bug-1 alone would mask #4\n less, not more, so the hunks are submitted together.\n\nBoth fixes are one-liners. The Text PDU state machine is unchanged and\nthe wire protocol is unaffected." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"e48354ce078c079996f89d715dfa44814b4eba01","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f7948af0dd03de84079dcd4dc215a69fd6fbb95d"},{"version":"e48354ce078c079996f89d715dfa44814b4eba01","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"badf178b76b0690851df00f4ca9cf2eb8eb0f963"},{"version":"e48354ce078c079996f89d715dfa44814b4eba01","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6e22a1cdcc8277af4acc43710577157b77a02c5d"},{"version":"e48354ce078c079996f89d715dfa44814b4eba01","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d3e9b79aa794f7a23e82de4d710e7d2df610e349"},{"version":"e48354ce078c079996f89d715dfa44814b4eba01","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ec9f19d52074a191ed1756ed4a7d39fff1a2085c"},{"version":"e48354ce078c079996f89d715dfa44814b4eba01","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"89c81d1228c00fa6dd91de6c1c5aa1ef8a7875e3"},{"version":"e48354ce078c079996f89d715dfa44814b4eba01","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5118ea225fe63b44207ba88047e4866e1ea43812"},{"version":"e48354ce078c079996f89d715dfa44814b4eba01","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"778c2ab142c625a8a8afa570e0f9b7873f445d99"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.1","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.1"},{"version":"5.10.259","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.210","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.176","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.143","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.93","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.35","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.0.12","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.0.*"},{"version":"7.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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