{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-72085 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2026-72085 is a critical use after free vulnerability in Linux, published on 15 Aug 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2026-72085 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-72085 is a critical use after free vulnerability in Linux, published on 15 Aug 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-72085 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-72085/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-72085/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-72085","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-72085/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-72085","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2026-72085","DEBIAN-CVE-2026-72085","GHSA-vprc-jrmr-xq56","UBUNTU-CVE-2026-72085"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"none","summary":"A malicious guest can cause a use-after-free and tag leak in the Xen SCSI backend, leading to LUN denial of service or host panic.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"use_after_free"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":9.3,"severity":"critical","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-416","name":"Use After Free"}],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nscsi: xen: scsiback: Free unsubmitted command instead of double-putting it\n\nscsiback_get_pend_req() obtains a command tag and returns a vscsibk_pend\nwhose embedded se_cmd has only been memset to 0, so its cmd_kref is 0;\nthe se_cmd is initialised (kref_init() via target_init_cmd()) only\nlater, in scsiback_cmd_exec(), on the successful VSCSIIF_ACT_SCSI_CDB\npath. The two error paths in scsiback_do_cmd_fn() taken before the\ncommand is submitted -- a failed scsiback_gnttab_data_map() and an\nunknown ring_req.act -- call\ntransport_generic_free_cmd(\u0026pending_req-\u003ese_cmd, 0), which kref_put()s a\nrefcount of 0. That underflows it (\"refcount_t: underflow;\nuse-after-free\") and, as the release function is not run, leaks the\ncommand tag.\n\nImpact: a pvSCSI guest can leak every command tag of a LUN's session,\nstopping the LUN, by submitting requests with a bad grant reference or\nan unknown request type; under panic_on_warn the refcount underflow\npanics the host.\n\nAdd a helper that just returns the tag with target_free_tag() and sends\nthe error response. It frees the tag while the v2p reference still pins\nthe session, and snapshots the response fields beforehand because\nfreeing the tag can let another ring reuse the pending_req slot.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"scsi: xen: scsiback: Free unsubmitted command instead of double-putting it","id":"CVE-2026-72085","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"use_after_free","year":"2026"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":7,"next":{"headline":"scsi: xen: scsiback: Free the command tag on the TMR submit-failure path","id":"CVE-2026-72086"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"scsi: target: Bound PR-OUT TransportID parsing to the received buffer","id":"CVE-2026-72084"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2026-08-15","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"total"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-10-19","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A malicious guest can cause a use-after-free and tag leak in the Xen SCSI backend, leading to LUN denial of service or host panic.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-72085/"}