CVE-2026-98128
Linux kernel: information disclosure
- Risk score
- 43/100
- CVSS
- 5.5 v3.1
- Exploit chance (30 days)
- 0.1%
- Published
- 25 Sep 2026
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What to know
- What it is
- In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: mpi3mr: Fix target device refcount leak in mpi3mr_sas_port_add() mpi3mr_get_tgtdev_by_addr() increments the target device kref when it returns a device. If a subsequent error triggers a goto out_fail after the tgtdev reference is acquired, the r…
- Affected
- Linux kernel
- Fix
- Apply the vendor's security update; see the linked advisory.
- Exploitation
- No known exploitation
Why it is Yellow
- CVSS 5.5 medium
- On your watchlist: linux kernel
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/040146f81d099006a354b0caacc7f01ca00f257e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/06a7073b33b8f5cb0ee71e07dc669efffb1c7d58
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1ccbe8c42009706af79e6629c70d42fc929aef2b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/419d129f970aaa6567dbac366b0c93784bf9ec97
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/58e3d2fbc8c914ed3dce2f7d915b3c4f4a3c76fb
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/60a9aaac07f6470b252c4de40e7d8a6e25004093
Original description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: mpi3mr: Fix target device refcount leak in mpi3mr_sas_port_add() mpi3mr_get_tgtdev_by_addr() increments the target device kref when it returns a device. If a subsequent error triggers a goto out_fail after the tgtdev reference is acquired, the reference is never released because the out_fail path does not call mpi3mr_tgtdev_put(). This prevents the target device structure from ever being freed. Add a tgtdev put in the out_fail path, guarded by a NULL check since tgtdev is only acquired for SAS_END_DEVICE types and the same cleanup path is shared by earlier error cases where tgtdev is still NULL.
Last activity 25 Sep 2026. Patch Forecast updates every hour.