CVE-2026-72086

scsi: xen: scsiback: Free the command tag on the TMR submit-failure path

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Aug 15, 2026
Updated
Aug 17, 2026
Reserved
Aug 9, 2026

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Description

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

scsi: xen: scsiback: Free the command tag on the TMR submit-failure path

scsiback_device_action() obtains a command tag in scsiback_get_pend_req() and submits a task-management request with target_submit_tmr(). When target_submit_tmr() fails it returns < 0 and scsiback jumps to the err: label, which sends a response but frees nothing, leaking the tag.

Impact: a pvSCSI guest can leak the command tags of a LUN's session, stopping the LUN, by issuing VSCSIIF_ACT_SCSI_ABORT or RESET requests whenever target_submit_tmr() fails.

transport_generic_free_cmd() cannot be used here. By the time target_submit_tmr() returns an error it has already run __target_init_cmd() (so se_cmd->cmd_kref is one, not zero), and on its target_get_sess_cmd() error path it has freed se_cmd->se_tmr_req via core_tmr_release_req() while leaving SCF_SCSI_TMR_CDB set and the pointer dangling. Letting the command release run target_free_cmd_mem() would then double-free se_tmr_req.

Use the same helper, which returns just the tag, on this path too.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 2dbcdf33dbf61f44b29adb52338282c3d7840d0e to before 4567ce79fe2f84c3dcc3a91b22a377cf482d33adAffected
  • 2dbcdf33dbf61f44b29adb52338282c3d7840d0e to before 6c01f0439098f00a64b246dc27479602201382f7Affected
  • 2dbcdf33dbf61f44b29adb52338282c3d7840d0e to before 18d4f86816592586b38513543b5e1f9553bc271fAffected
  • 2dbcdf33dbf61f44b29adb52338282c3d7840d0e to before fbc1bdede66d0f2cde83b75d6524ce1a815bb69fAffected
  • 2dbcdf33dbf61f44b29adb52338282c3d7840d0e to before 255fb7b0cdc947b1c01929c7f133281342a3a6b5Affected
  • 2dbcdf33dbf61f44b29adb52338282c3d7840d0e to before 1357fb32d42ad8da193e6da285f09e6452feabdaAffected
  • 2dbcdf33dbf61f44b29adb52338282c3d7840d0e to before 66aefc277ebb796ec285d550305535dc3fc0179fAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 4.6Affected
  • before 4.6Not affected
  • 5.15.212 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.178 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.145 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.97 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.40 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.1.5 through 7.1.*Not affected
  • 7.2 and laterNot affected

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