CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-72081

Low risk· EPSS 12%
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.22%

12th percentile - higher than 12% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, in the SCSI elx efct driver, an I/O leak was detected in efct_dispatch_fcp_cmd(). The function allocates an efct_io before dispatching an unsolicited FCP command, but if the command has an unsupported additional CDB, it returns -EIO without freeing the allocated I/O.

Risk Assessment

Memory leak may lead to resource exhaustion and system instability. It may also cause incorrect behavior of the SCSI driver.

Recommendation

Apply the Linux kernel patch that frees the allocated I/O before returning the error in this path. Update the system to a kernel version containing this fix.

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Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS