CVE-2026-23229

CWE-8208 documents8 sources
Severity
5.5MEDIUM
EPSS
0.0%
top 93.55%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
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

NVDlinux/linux_kernel4.19.3064.20+8
CVEListV5linux/linux0eb69890e86775d178452880ea0d24384c5ccedf552475d0b6cece73a52c0fa5faa0ce45e99df74b+11
Debianlinux< 5.10.251-1+3
Debianlinux-6.1< 6.1.164-1~deb11u1

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
CVEList
crypto: virtio - Add spinlock protection with virtqueue notification2026-02-18
GHSA
GHSA-j87r-wgfm-7fjj: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: virtio - Add spinlock protection with virtqueue notification When VM boo2026-02-18
OSV
CVE-2026-23229: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: virtio - Add spinlock protection with virtqueue notification When VM boots2026-02-18

📋Vendor Advisories

3
Red Hat
kernel: Kernel: Denial of Service in virtio-crypto due to missing spinlock protection2026-02-18
Microsoft
crypto: virtio - Add spinlock protection with virtqueue notification2026-02-10
Debian
CVE-2026-23229: linux - In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: vir...2026

🕵️Threat Intelligence

1
Wiz
CVE-2026-23229 Impact, Exploitability, and Mitigation Steps | Wiz
CVE-2026-23229 (MEDIUM CVSS 5.5) | In the Linux kernel | cvebase.io