Bug 2425166 (CVE-2023-54154)

Summary: CVE-2023-54154 kernel: Linux kernel: Denial of Service due to memory leak in target_cmd_counter
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A flaw was found in SCSI subsystem of the Linux kernel. A local attacker with low privileges could exploit a memory leak within the `target_cmd_counter` structure. This issue, a type of resource management error, can lead to a Denial of Service (DoS) by gradually consuming system memory.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-12-24 14:07:54 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

scsi: target: core: Fix target_cmd_counter leak

The target_cmd_counter struct allocated via target_alloc_cmd_counter() is
never freed, resulting in leaks across various transport types, e.g.:

 unreferenced object 0xffff88801f920120 (size 96):
  comm "sh", pid 102, jiffies 4294892535 (age 713.412s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    07 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 38 01 92 1f 80 88 ff ff  ........8.......
  backtrace:
    [<00000000e58a6252>] kmalloc_trace+0x11/0x20
    [<0000000043af4b2f>] target_alloc_cmd_counter+0x17/0x90 [target_core_mod]
    [<000000007da2dfa7>] target_setup_session+0x2d/0x140 [target_core_mod]
    [<0000000068feef86>] tcm_loop_tpg_nexus_store+0x19b/0x350 [tcm_loop]
    [<000000006a80e021>] configfs_write_iter+0xb1/0x120
    [<00000000e9f4d860>] vfs_write+0x2e4/0x3c0
    [<000000008143433b>] ksys_write+0x80/0xb0
    [<00000000a7df29b2>] do_syscall_64+0x42/0x90
    [<0000000053f45fb8>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8

Free the structure alongside the corresponding iscsit_conn / se_sess
parent.