CVE-2026-23229
Severity
5.5MEDIUM
EPSS
0.0%
top 93.55%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedFeb 18
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
crypto: virtio - Add spinlock protection with virtqueue notification
When VM boots with one virtio-crypto PCI device and builtin backend,
run openssl benchmark command with multiple processes, such as
openssl speed -evp aes-128-cbc -engine afalg -seconds 10 -multi 32
openssl processes will hangup and there is error reported like this:
virtio_crypto virtio0: dataq.0:id 3 is not a head!
It seems that the data virtqueue need pr…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages4 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux0eb69890e86775d178452880ea0d24384c5ccedf — 552475d0b6cece73a52c0fa5faa0ce45e99df74b+11
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
3GHSA▶
GHSA-j87r-wgfm-7fjj: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
crypto: virtio - Add spinlock protection with virtqueue notification
When VM boo↗2026-02-18
OSV▶
CVE-2026-23229: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: virtio - Add spinlock protection with virtqueue notification When VM boots↗2026-02-18
📋Vendor Advisories
3Red Hat
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Debian▶
CVE-2026-23229: linux - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: vir...↗2026