CVE-2026-99206: scsi: target: iscsi: Fix race in discovery auth updates
Published Oct 28, 2026
·Updated
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 iscsiupdateparamvalue(), 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 Software
1 affected component
Linux Linux kernel
Event History
Oct 28, 2026
CVE Published
via MITRE·10:35 AM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·10:35 AM
Description