CVE-2026-23216: Linux Kernel

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: target: iscsi: Fix use-after-free in iscsit_dec_conn_usage_count() In iscsit_dec_conn_usage_count(), the function calls complete() while holding the conn->conn_usage_lock. As soon as complete() is invoked, the waiter (such as iscsit_close_connection()) may wake up and proceed to free the iscsit_conn structure. If the waiter frees the memory before the current thread reaches spin_unlock_bh(), it results in a KASAN slab-use-after-free as the function attempts to release a lock within the already-freed connection structure. Fix this by releasing the spinlock before calling complete().

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 3.1, before 5.10.250 (fixed in 5.10.250); from 5.11, before 5.15.200 (fixed in 5.15.200); from 5.16, before 6.1.163 (fixed in 6.1.163); from 6.2, before 6.6.124 (fixed in 6.6.124); from 6.7, before 6.12.70 (fixed in 6.12.70); from 6.13, before 6.18.10 (fixed in 6.18.10); …

Published 2026-02-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.