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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-23261"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-03-18T17:41:07.478Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-23T16:04:22.947Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:02.025Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23261"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23261.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-23261"
title: "nvme-fc: release admin tagset if init fails"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnvme-fc: release admin tagset if init fails\n\nnvme_fabrics creates an NVMe/FC controller in following path:\n\n    nvmf_dev_write()\n      -\u003e nvmf_create_ctrl()\n        -\u003e nvme_fc_create_ctrl()\n          -\u003e nvme_fc_init_ctrl()\n\nnvme_fc_init_ctrl() allocates the admin blk-mq resources right after\nnvme_add_ctrl() succeeds.  If any of the subsequent steps fail (changing\nthe controller state, scheduling connect work, etc.), we jump to the\nfail_ctrl path, which tears down the controller references but never\nfrees the admin queue/tag set.  The leaked blk-mq allocations match the\nkmemleak report seen during blktests nvme/fc.\n\nCheck ctrl-\u003ectrl.admin_tagset in the fail_ctrl path and call\nnvme_remove_admin_tag_set() when it is set so that all admin queue\nallocations are reclaimed whenever controller setup aborts."
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