CVE-2026-23296

CVE-2026-23296

Medium · published March 25, 2026

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
2.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

scsi: core: Fix refcount leak for tagset_refcnt

This leak will cause a hang when tearing down the SCSI host. For example,

iscsid hangs with the following call trace:

[130120.652718] scsi_alloc_sdev: Allocation failure during SCSI scanning, some SCSI devices might not be configured

PID: 2528 TASK: ffff9d0408974e00 CPU: 3 COMMAND: "iscsid"

#0 [ffffb5b9c134b9e0] __schedule at ffffffff860657d4

#1 [ffffb5b9c134ba28] schedule at ffffffff86065c6f

#2 [ffffb5b9c134ba40] schedule_timeout at ffffffff86069fb0

#3 [ffffb5b9c134bab0] __wait_for_common at ffffffff8606674f

#4 [ffffb5b9c134bb10] scsi_remove_host at ffffffff85bfe84b

#5 [ffffb5b9c134bb30] iscsi_sw_tcp_session_destroy at ffffffffc03031c4 [iscsi_tcp]

#6 [ffffb5b9c134bb48] iscsi_if_recv_msg at ffffffffc0292692 [scsi_transport_iscsi]

#7 [ffffb5b9c134bb98] iscsi_if_rx at ffffffffc02929c2 [scsi_transport_iscsi]

#8 [ffffb5b9c134bbf0] netlink_unicast at ffffffff85e551d6

#9 [ffffb5b9c134bc38] netlink_sendmsg at ffffffff85e554ef

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
0.00127 · 2.2th percentile
Published
2026-03-25T15:16Z
Affected products (14)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.10.223, < 5.115.11
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.15.164, < 5.15.2035.15.203
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.19.12, < 6.06.0
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.0.1, < 6.1.1676.1.167
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.2, < 6.6.1306.6.130
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.7, < 6.12.776.12.77
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.13, < 6.18.176.18.17
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.19, < 6.19.76.19.7
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References (8)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 25 MAR 10:26Z
    scsi: core: Fix refcount leak for tagset_refcnt
    cvelistv5