# 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-2026-72086"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:52:34.822Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T05:07:56.806Z"
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-2026-72086"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72086.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72086"
title: "scsi: xen: scsiback: Free the command tag on the TMR submit-failure path"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nscsi: xen: scsiback: Free the command tag on the TMR submit-failure path\n\nscsiback_device_action() obtains a command tag in\nscsiback_get_pend_req() and submits a task-management request with\ntarget_submit_tmr(). When target_submit_tmr() fails it returns \u003c 0 and\nscsiback jumps to the err: label, which sends a response but frees\nnothing, leaking the tag.\n\nImpact: a pvSCSI guest can leak the command tags of a LUN's session,\nstopping the LUN, by issuing VSCSIIF_ACT_SCSI_ABORT or RESET requests\nwhenever target_submit_tmr() fails.\n\ntransport_generic_free_cmd() cannot be used here. By the time\ntarget_submit_tmr() returns an error it has already run\n__target_init_cmd() (so se_cmd-\u003ecmd_kref is one, not zero), and on its\ntarget_get_sess_cmd() error path it has freed se_cmd-\u003ese_tmr_req via\ncore_tmr_release_req() while leaving SCF_SCSI_TMR_CDB set and the\npointer dangling. Letting the command release run target_free_cmd_mem()\nwould then double-free se_tmr_req.\n\nUse the same helper, which returns just the tag, on this path too."
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