{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-63888 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2026-63888 is a critical use after free vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 19 Jul 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2026-63888 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-63888 is a critical use after free vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 19 Jul 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-63888 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-63888/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-63888/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-63888","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-63888/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-63888","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2026-63888","DEBIAN-CVE-2026-63888","GHSA-ww53-m8wh-v825","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2026-63888","UBUNTU-CVE-2026-63888"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service","code_execution"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":true,"product_category":"Linux kernel iSCSI","requires_auth":"none","summary":"A double-free and buffer overread in the Linux kernel iSCSI target allows remote attackers to cause denial of service or potentially execute code when DataDigest is enabled.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"use_after_free"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":9.8,"severity":"critical","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-415","name":"Double Free"}],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nscsi: target: iscsi: Fix CRC overread and double-free in iscsit_handle_text_cmd()\n\nTwo latent bugs in the Text-phase handler, both present since the\noriginal LIO integration in commit e48354ce078c (\"iscsi-target: Add\niSCSI fabric support for target v4.1\"):\n\n1) DataDigest CRC buffer overread (4 bytes past text_in).\n\n   text_in is kzalloc()'d at ALIGN(payload_length, 4).  rx_size is then\n   incremented by ISCSI_CRC_LEN to make room for the received DataDigest\n   in the iovec, but the same (now-bumped) rx_size is passed as the\n   buffer length to iscsit_crc_buf():\n\n       if (conn-\u003econn_ops-\u003eDataDigest) {\n               ...\n               rx_size += ISCSI_CRC_LEN;\n       }\n       ...\n       if (conn-\u003econn_ops-\u003eDataDigest) {\n               data_crc = iscsit_crc_buf(text_in, rx_size, 0, NULL);\n\n   iscsit_crc_buf() walks rx_size bytes of text_in with crc32c(), so\n   when DataDigest is negotiated it reads 4 bytes past the end of the\n   text_in allocation.  KASAN reproduces this directly on the unpatched\n   mainline tree as slab-out-of-bounds in crc32c() called from the Text\n   PDU path.  The OOB bytes feed crc32c() and are then compared against\n   the initiator-supplied checksum, so the value does not flow back to\n   the attacker, but the kernel does read past the buffer on every Text\n   PDU with DataDigest=CRC32C.\n\n   Fix by passing the actual padded payload length\n   (ALIGN(payload_length, 4)) that was used for the kzalloc().\n\n2) Stale cmd-\u003etext_in_ptr re-free (double-free) on ERL\u003e0 bad DataDigest\n   drop.\n\n   On DataDigest mismatch with ErrorRecoveryLevel \u003e 0 the handler\n   silently drops the PDU and lets the initiator plug the CmdSN gap:\n\n               kfree(text_in);\n               return 0;\n\n   cmd-\u003etext_in_ptr still points at the freed buffer.  The next Text\n   Request on the same ITT re-enters iscsit_setup_text_cmd(), which\n   unconditionally does\n\n       kfree(cmd-\u003etext_in_ptr);\n       cmd-\u003etext_in_ptr = NULL;\n\n   freeing the same pointer a second time.  Session teardown via\n   iscsit_release_cmd() has the same shape and hits the same double-free\n   if the connection is dropped before a second Text Request arrives.\n\n   On an unmodified mainline tree the bug-1 CRC overread fires first on\n   the initial valid Text Request and perturbs the subsequent state, so\n   #4 was isolated by building a kernel with only the bug-1 hunk of this\n   patch applied plus temporary printk() observability around the three\n   relevant kfree() sites.  The observability prints are not part of\n   this patch.  On that build, a three-PDU Text Request sequence after\n   login produces two back-to-back splats:\n\n       BUG: KASAN: double-free in iscsit_setup_text_cmd+0x??\n       BUG: KASAN: double-free in iscsit_release_cmd+0x??\n\n   showing the same pointer freed in the ERL\u003e0 drop path and again in\n   iscsit_setup_text_cmd() (next Text Request on the same ITT) and once\n   more in iscsit_release_cmd() (session teardown).  On distro kernels\n   with CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_HARDENED=y (default) the double-free\n   becomes a remote kernel BUG(); on non-hardened kernels it corrupts\n   the slab freelist.\n\n   Fix by clearing cmd-\u003etext_in_ptr after the kfree() in the ERL\u003e0 drop\n   path.  With both hunks applied #4 is directly observable on the stock\n   tree without observability printks; fixing bug-1 alone would mask #4\n   less, not more, so the hunks are submitted together.\n\nBoth fixes are one-liners.  The Text PDU state machine is unchanged and\nthe wire protocol is unaffected.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"scsi: target: iscsi: Fix CRC overread and double-free in iscsit_handle_text_cmd()","id":"CVE-2026-63888","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"use_after_free","year":"2026"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":8,"next":{"headline":"scsi: scsi_transport_fc: Widen FPIN pname walker counter to u32","id":"CVE-2026-63889"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"scsi: target: iscsi: Bound iscsi_encode_text_output() appends to rsp_buf","id":"CVE-2026-63887"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2026-07-19","related":[{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write","id":"CVE-2026-53266","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2026-06-25"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation","id":"CVE-2013-6282","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-11-19"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2022-0185","kev_date_added":"2024-08-21","published":"2022-02-11"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation","id":"CVE-2013-2094","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-05-14"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Unspecified","id":"CVE-2026-53362","kev_date_added":"2026-08-27","published":"2026-07-04"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Missing Initialization of a Variable","id":"CVE-2026-46300","kev_date_added":"2026-10-28","published":"2026-05-23"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Race Condition","id":"CVE-2025-39964","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-10-13"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"yes","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"total"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-10-19","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A double-free and buffer overread in the Linux kernel iSCSI target allows remote attackers to cause denial of service or potentially execute code when DataDigest is enabled.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-63888/"}