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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-98357" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-10-06T08:46:44.216Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:18:07.886Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z" 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-2026-98357" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98357.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98357" title: "IB/isert: wait for deferred control PDU completions before releasing the connection" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nIB/isert: wait for deferred control PDU completions before releasing the connection\n\nisert_send_done() hands ISTATE_SEND_TASKMGTRSP, ISTATE_SEND_REJECT and\nISTATE_SEND_TEXTRSP completions off to isert_comp_wq and returns. The work\nitem then runs isert_completion_put() -\u003e isert_put_cmd(), which reads\nisert_conn-\u003econn and takes conn-\u003ecmd_lock.\n\nNothing orders that work item against teardown. isert_wait_conn() queues\nisert_release_work, which frees isert_conn, and iscsit_close_connection()\nfrees the iscsit_conn right after it returns, so the queued work can run\nagainst freed memory.\n\nCount the deferred control PDU completions per connection and let\nisert_wait_conn() wait for them before the release work is queued.\n\nISTATE_SEND_LOGOUTRSP is deliberately not counted: that branch runs\niscsit_logout_post_handler(), which ends up waiting for\nconn-\u003econn_wait_comp, and that completion is only sent by\niscsit_close_connection() after it has called iscsit_wait_conn().\nWaiting for it here would deadlock. Its wait stays the existing\nisert_wait4logout().\n\nThe splat below is from a kernel with tracing printk()s and an msleep(200)\ninjected into isert_do_control_comp() to widen the window:\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in isert_put_cmd+0x53d/0x620\n Read of size 8 at addr ffff8881054f1038 by task kworker/u17:1/182\n\n CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 182 Comm: kworker/u17:1 Tainted: G B 7.2.0-rc5-TWIDE-gb8babf08acc7 #1 PREEMPT(lazy)\n Tainted: [B]=BAD_PAGE\n Hardware name: QEMU Ubuntu 24.04 PC v2 (i440FX + PIIX, arch_caps fix, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014\n Workqueue: isert_comp_wq isert_do_control_comp\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n dump_stack_lvl+0x53/0x70\n print_report+0xd0/0x630\n ? __pfx__raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x10/0x10\n ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x3e/0x70\n ? isert_put_cmd+0x53d/0x620\n kasan_report+0xce/0x100\n ? isert_put_cmd+0x53d/0x620\n isert_put_cmd+0x53d/0x620\n ? isert_completion_put+0x305/0x330\n ? isert_do_control_comp+0x2ef/0x310\n process_one_work+0x633/0x1030\n ? assign_work+0x11d/0x370\n worker_thread+0x45b/0xd10\n ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10\n ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10\n kthread+0x2c6/0x3b0\n ? recalc_sigpending+0x15c/0x1e0\n ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10\n ret_from_fork+0x36e/0x5a0\n ? __pfx_ret_from_fork+0x10/0x10\n ? __switch_to+0x572/0xdd0\n ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10\n ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30\n \u003c/TASK\u003e\n\n Allocated by task 48:\n kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60\n kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30\n __kasan_kmalloc+0x8f/0xa0\n __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x158/0x370\n isert_cma_handler+0x1e3/0x2ae0\n cma_cm_event_handler+0x3e/0x240\n cma_ib_req_handler+0x17d9/0x4490\n cm_process_work+0x41/0x330\n cm_work_handler+0x5727/0xc160\n process_one_work+0x633/0x1030\n worker_thread+0x45b/0xd10\n kthread+0x2c6/0x3b0\n ret_from_fork+0x36e/0x5a0\n ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30\n\n Freed by task 184:\n kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60\n kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30\n kasan_save_free_info+0x3b/0x60\n __kasan_slab_free+0x43/0x70\n kfree+0x121/0x380\n iscsit_close_connection+0x7cf/0x1e60\n iscsit_take_action_for_connection_exit+0x1b6/0x360\n iscsi_target_tx_thread+0x472/0x690\n kthread+0x2c6/0x3b0\n ret_from_fork+0x36e/0x5a0\n ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"b8d26b3be8b33682cf163274ed07479a70554633","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f5613acbe2e346d5c466ef0bd264fca936b69f82"},{"version":"b8d26b3be8b33682cf163274ed07479a70554633","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ccdb1523f12bc8a9646de65055d1aafed9e9bcc6"},{"version":"b8d26b3be8b33682cf163274ed07479a70554633","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0e230917670c6e6fe3243abfa11299fcbe05b1f4"},{"version":"b8d26b3be8b33682cf163274ed07479a70554633","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"505b242d9351690d1385bbe508ab4666f60363ce"},{"version":"b8d26b3be8b33682cf163274ed07479a70554633","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7edb8a88d6c76237c8b4435765bee1009e26a50a"},{"version":"b8d26b3be8b33682cf163274ed07479a70554633","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b96b8b3e41c308f606ffd10cfef1a7b9f97414cd"},{"version":"b8d26b3be8b33682cf163274ed07479a70554633","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7908fbc597a694bbd99bfb59ece73bc3daded68e"},{"version":"b8d26b3be8b33682cf163274ed07479a70554633","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a8fe3dfce8c0d8a76dc3d8486a5bff5feebe156f"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.10","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.10"},{"version":"5.10.271","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.222","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.189","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.158","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.112","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.54","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","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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