CVE-2026-74557

scsi: libiscsi: Fix stale-data leak into the SCSI sense buffer

HIGH
7.5
CVSS Score
Published: August 15, 2026 at 12:28 PM UTC
Updated: October 16, 2026 at 08:17 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH7.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.3%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: libiscsi: Fix stale-data leak into the SCSI sense buffer iscsi_scsi_cmd_rsp() copies the sense data of a SCSI Response from the target-supplied data segment. The segment carries a 2-byte sense length followed by the sense bytes, so it must hold 2 + senselen bytes, but the bounds check only requires datalen >= senselen: senselen = get_unaligned_be16(data); if (datalen < senselen) goto invalid_datalen; memcpy(sc->sense_buffer, data + 2, min_t(uint16_t, senselen, SCSI_SENSE_BUFFERSIZE)); A target that returns a SCSI Response whose datalen equals senselen (with senselen <= SCSI_SENSE_BUFFERSIZE) makes the memcpy() from data + 2 read up to two bytes past the received data. Those bytes are stale conn->data contents and end up in the command's sense buffer, which is returned to userspace. Account for the 2-byte sense length prefix in the check.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

2.6.187996a778ff8c717cb1a7a294475c59cc8f1e9fb8
Vendor states this is fixed in 1f07a897d43c63e6c9458bf77450defef39b5833 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 3ef209ca0b4b68c75e9a814d90cc916026b5a6ac (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 60499924faf4ef97e84228c20515218ef121facf (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7567f06abdefb1caf2d836107c4d08c5185c650e (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 812f1ae95b22419422972748f173b0916ee4d621 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 98b87885de4b7f605533a2860685f5689fce8e82 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in baa04572673125e4d5bc309b4077d1cb46cc78d1 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in fef6167e8149896cd81bea333fd51b1c91239149 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 2.6.18 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.10.265 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.15.216 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.183 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.103 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.44 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.151 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.1.8 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.2 (unaffected)

Remediation

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CVSS

7.5HIGHLinux
Vector?

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