Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime in Linux kernel - CVE-2026-72086

Vulnerability identifier: #VU143506

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4: 7.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2026-72086

CWE-ID: CWE-772

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

The vulnerability allows a remote user to cause a denial of service.

The vulnerability exists due to a resource leak in scsiback_device_action() in the xen scsi backend when submitting task-management requests and handling target_submit_tmr() failures. A remote user can issue VSCSIIF_ACT_SCSI_ABORT or reset requests to cause a denial of service.

The issue affects a pvSCSI guest and can leak command tags for a LUN session, stopping the LUN, when task-management request submission fails.

Linux kernel
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS Extended
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching
kgraft-patch-4_12_14-122_328-default
dlm-kmp-default
kernel-default-man
kernel-macros
kernel-devel
kernel-source
kernel-default-devel-debuginfo
kernel-default-base
kernel-default-devel
cluster-md-kmp-default
gfs2-kmp-default
ocfs2-kmp-default-debuginfo
gfs2-kmp-default-debuginfo
kernel-default
ocfs2-kmp-default
kernel-default-base-debuginfo
dlm-kmp-default-debuginfo
cluster-md-kmp-default-debuginfo
kernel-syms
kernel-default-kgraft
kernel-default-debuginfo
kernel-default-kgraft-devel
kernel-default-debugsource

Install security update from vendor's repository.

Linux kernel - update to 7.0 rc3
kgraft-patch-4_12_14-122_328-default - update to 1-8.5.1
dlm-kmp-default - update to 4.12.14-122.328.1
kernel-default-man - update to 4.12.14-122.328.1
kernel-macros - update to 4.12.14-122.328.1
kernel-devel - update to 4.12.14-122.328.1
kernel-source - update to 4.12.14-122.328.1
kernel-default-devel-debuginfo - update to 4.12.14-122.328.1
kernel-default-base - update to 4.12.14-122.328.1
kernel-default-devel - update to 4.12.14-122.328.1
cluster-md-kmp-default - update to 4.12.14-122.328.1
gfs2-kmp-default - update to 4.12.14-122.328.1
ocfs2-kmp-default-debuginfo - update to 4.12.14-122.328.1
gfs2-kmp-default-debuginfo - update to 4.12.14-122.328.1
kernel-default - update to 4.12.14-122.328.1
ocfs2-kmp-default - update to 4.12.14-122.328.1
kernel-default-base-debuginfo - update to 4.12.14-122.328.1
dlm-kmp-default-debuginfo - update to 4.12.14-122.328.1
cluster-md-kmp-default-debuginfo - update to 4.12.14-122.328.1
kernel-syms - update to 4.12.14-122.328.1
kernel-default-kgraft - update to 4.12.14-122.328.1
kernel-default-debuginfo - update to 4.12.14-122.328.1
kernel-default-kgraft-devel - update to 4.12.14-122.328.1
kernel-default-debugsource - update to 4.12.14-122.328.1

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1357fb32d42ad8da193e6da285f09e6452feabda
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/18d4f86816592586b38513543b5e1f9553bc271f
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/255fb7b0cdc947b1c01929c7f133281342a3a6b5
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4567ce79fe2f84c3dcc3a91b22a377cf482d33ad
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/66aefc277ebb796ec285d550305535dc3fc0179f
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6c01f0439098f00a64b246dc27479602201382f7
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fbc1bdede66d0f2cde83b75d6524ce1a815bb69f

• Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime in Linux kernel xen driver
• SUSE update for the Linux Kernel