CVE-2026-23259

CVE-2026-23259

Medium · published March 18, 2026

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
1.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

io_uring/rw: free potentially allocated iovec on cache put failure

If a read/write request goes through io_req_rw_cleanup() and has an

allocated iovec attached and fails to put to the rw_cache, then it may

end up with an unaccounted iovec pointer. Have io_rw_recycle() return

whether it recycled the request or not, and use that to gauge whether to

free a potential iovec or not.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00117 · 1.6th percentile
Published
2026-03-18T22:16Z
Affected products (7)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.10, < 6.18.106.18.10
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References (3)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 18 MAR 17:41Z
    io_uring/rw: free potentially allocated iovec on cache put failure
    cvelistv5