# 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-2026-98128"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-25T10:36:09.014Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:14:20.796Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z"
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-2026-98128"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98128.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98128"
title: "scsi: mpi3mr: Fix target device refcount leak in mpi3mr_sas_port_add()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nscsi: mpi3mr: Fix target device refcount leak in mpi3mr_sas_port_add()\n\nmpi3mr_get_tgtdev_by_addr() increments the target device kref when it\nreturns a device. If a subsequent error triggers a goto out_fail after\nthe tgtdev reference is acquired, the reference is never released\nbecause the out_fail path does not call mpi3mr_tgtdev_put(). This\nprevents the target device structure from ever being freed.\n\nAdd a tgtdev put in the out_fail path, guarded by a NULL check since\ntgtdev is only acquired for SAS_END_DEVICE types and the same cleanup\npath is shared by earlier error cases where tgtdev is still NULL."
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