# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-53126"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-06-24T16:30:54.594Z"
updatedAt: "2026-06-24T16:30:54.594Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:20.586Z"
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-2026-53126"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-53126.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53126"
title: "blk-cgroup: fix disk reference leak in blkcg_maybe_throttle_current()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nblk-cgroup: fix disk reference leak in blkcg_maybe_throttle_current()\n\nAdd the missing put_disk() on the error path in\nblkcg_maybe_throttle_current(). When blkcg lookup, blkg lookup, or\nblkg_tryget() fails, the function jumps to the out label which only\ncalls rcu_read_unlock() but does not release the disk reference acquired\nby blkcg_schedule_throttle() via get_device(). Since current-\u003ethrottle_disk\nis already set to NULL before the lookup, blkcg_exit() cannot release\nthis reference either, causing the disk to never be freed.\n\nRestore the reference release that was present as blk_put_queue() in the\noriginal code but was inadvertently dropped during the conversion from\nrequest_queue to gendisk."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"f05837ed73d0c73e950b2d9f2612febb0d3d451e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4048ed98860d3785645ebbd34f69566a6c7320c3"},{"version":"f05837ed73d0c73e950b2d9f2612febb0d3d451e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"73a5af059905d171b398c8b2381632ee499948b5"},{"version":"f05837ed73d0c73e950b2d9f2612febb0d3d451e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b3e005f16cd98f815429a87aef4c61e9c140779f"},{"version":"f05837ed73d0c73e950b2d9f2612febb0d3d451e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"000e8454692cab9d1f1b80130e2870e355301d06"},{"version":"f05837ed73d0c73e950b2d9f2612febb0d3d451e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"23308af722fefed00af5f238024c11710938fba3"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.3","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.3"},{"version":"6.6.141","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.91","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.33","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.0.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.0.*"},{"version":"7.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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