Vulnerability Details CVE-2026-23261
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nvme-fc: release admin tagset if init fails
nvme_fabrics creates an NVMe/FC controller in following path:
nvmf_dev_write()
-> nvmf_create_ctrl()
-> nvme_fc_create_ctrl()
-> nvme_fc_init_ctrl()
nvme_fc_init_ctrl() allocates the admin blk-mq resources right after
nvme_add_ctrl() succeeds. If any of the subsequent steps fail (changing
the controller state, scheduling connect work, etc.), we jump to the
fail_ctrl path, which tears down the controller references but never
frees the admin queue/tag set. The leaked blk-mq allocations match the
kmemleak report seen during blktests nvme/fc.
Check ctrl->ctrl.admin_tagset in the fail_ctrl path and call
nvme_remove_admin_tag_set() when it is set so that all admin queue
allocations are reclaimed whenever controller setup aborts.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.001
EPSS Ranking 1.7%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 5.5
Products affected by CVE-2026-23261
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.12.60
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.12.61
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.12.62
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.12.63
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.12.64
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.12.65
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.12.66
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.12.67
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.12.68
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.12.69
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17.10
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17.11
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17.12
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17.13
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.18
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.18.1
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.18.2
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.18.3
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.18.4
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.18.5
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.18.6
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.18.7
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.18.8
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.18.9
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.19
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.6.118
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.6.119
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.6.120
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.6.121
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.6.122
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.6.123