Not yet scoredPublished Aug 15, 2026

CVE-2026-72081scsi: elx: efct: Fix I/O leak on unsupported additional CDB

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 26, 2026, 7:50 PM ET)

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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: elx: efct: Fix I/O leak on unsupported additional CDB efct_dispatch_fcp_cmd() allocates an efct_io before dispatching an unsolicited FCP command. If the command has an unsupported additional CDB, the function returns -EIO before handing the IO to the SCSI layer. Free the allocated IO before returning from this error path.

CVSS: Not yet scored
Weakness (CWE): Not given
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Linux
NVD analysis: Received
Record last updated: Aug 17, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

Linux Linux linux:linux (from the name)	from f45ae6aac0a077ca15a6e7baae0a62eef099ea7d before 42a391d508e1f52fda5d81344e100a53c00898e3; from f45ae6aac0a077ca15a6e7baae0a62eef099ea7d before 9d479f50a6067954259414aa66d816c7df081286; from f45ae6aac0a077ca15a6e7baae0a62eef099ea7d before 8c689a8f229223cec4a821c65cfe40f8e8c56470; from f45ae6aac0a077ca15a6e7baae0a62eef099ea7d before 235159f75ab6f95484494db4cc031663e5ee4680; from f45ae6aac0a077ca15a6e7baae0a62eef099ea7d before df87532e9212238509f23effd0ca39d9c3062d21; from f45ae6aac0a077ca15a6e7baae0a62eef099ea7d before 94cbfed191248dc88c23fc881119bb399486ddfd; from f45ae6aac0a077ca15a6e7baae0a62eef099ea7d before 9cb2d5291dbfe7bed565ead3337047dee9ed1064	CNA record

References

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/42a391d508e1f52fda5d81344e100a53c00898e3
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9d479f50a6067954259414aa66d816c7df081286
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8c689a8f229223cec4a821c65cfe40f8e8c56470
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/235159f75ab6f95484494db4cc031663e5ee4680
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/df87532e9212238509f23effd0ca39d9c3062d21
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/94cbfed191248dc88c23fc881119bb399486ddfd
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9cb2d5291dbfe7bed565ead3337047dee9ed1064

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