CVE-2026-23087: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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().

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 3.18, before 5.10.249 (fixed in 5.10.249); from 5.11, before 5.15.199 (fixed in 5.15.199); from 5.16, before 6.1.162 (fixed in 6.1.162); from 6.2, before 6.6.122 (fixed in 6.6.122); from 6.7, before 6.12.68 (fixed in 6.12.68); from 6.13, before 6.18.8 (fixed in 6.18.8); …

Published 2026-02-04. Last modified 2026-07-14.