CVE-2026-99206

scsi: target: iscsi: Fix race in discovery auth updates

N/A
Published: October 28, 2026 at 10:35 AM UTC
Updated: October 28, 2026 at 11:17 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: target: iscsi: Fix race in discovery auth updates Separate configfs opens can concurrently update the discovery AuthMethod parameter. Both callers may free the same value in iscsi_update_param_value(), causing a double-free. Protect the lookup and replacement with the discovery TPG access lock, as used by the other TPG configfs parameter updates.

Affected

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

3.1e48354ce078c079996f89d715dfa44814b4eba01
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.59 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.2.13 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.3 (unaffected)

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