# 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-2026-72082"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:52:31.291Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:07:52.350Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
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-2026-72082"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72082.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72082"
title: "scsi: elx: efct: Fix refcount leak in efct_hw_io_abort()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nscsi: elx: efct: Fix refcount leak in efct_hw_io_abort()\n\nWhen efct_hw_reqtag_alloc() fails in efct_hw_io_abort(), the error path\nreturns -ENOSPC without releasing the reference obtained via\nkref_get_unless_zero() earlier in the function. All other error paths\ncorrectly drop the reference. This causes a permanent reference leak on the\nio_to_abort object.\n\nAdditionally, the abort_in_progress flag is left set to true on this path,\nwhich means future abort attempts for the same I/O will immediately return\n-EINPROGRESS even though the abort was never submitted, effectively\nblocking recovery.\n\nFix this by adding the missing kref_put() call and reset abort_in_progress\nto false, matching the cleanup done in the efct_hw_wq_write() failure path\nbelow."
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