CVE-2026-90268: Linux

High severity, CVSS 8.1. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: sd: Fix error handling in sd_probe() after large pool creation failure After device_add(&sdkp->disk_dev) succeeds, sd_large_pool_create() failure must unregister disk_dev and let scsi_disk_release() free sdkp. Going through out_free_index kfree()s an already registered device and leaks the sysfs entry.

Affected products

• Linux Linux: from 7.1, before 7.2.6 (fixed in 7.2.6)

Published 2026-09-17. Last modified 2026-09-18.