Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Feb 4, 2026· Updated Feb 9, 2026
scsi: xen: scsiback: Fix potential memory leak in scsiback_remove()
CVE-2026-23087
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: xen: scsiback: Fix potential memory leak in scsiback_remove()
Memory allocated for struct vscsiblk_info in scsiback_probe() is not freed in scsiback_remove() leading to potential memory leaks on remove, as well as in the scsiback_probe() error paths. Fix that by freeing it in scsiback_remove().
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References
7- git.kernel.org/stable/c/24c441f0e24da175d7912095663f526ac480dc4fmitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/32e52b56056daf0f0881fd9254706acf25b4be97mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/427b0fb30ddec3bad05dcd73b00718f98c7026d2mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/4a975c72429b050c234405668b742cdecc11548emitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/901a5f309daba412e2a30364d7ec1492fa11c32cmitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/a8bb3ec8d85951a56af0a72d93ccbc2aee42eef9mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/f86264ec0e2b102fcd49bf3e4f32fee669d482fcmitre
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