CVE-2026-23292 — Multiple Locks of a Critical Resource in Linux
Severity
5.5MEDIUM
No vectorEPSS
0.0%
top 90.94%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedMar 25
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: target: Fix recursive locking in __configfs_open_file()
In flush_write_buffer, &p->frag_sem is acquired and then the loaded store
function is called, which, here, is target_core_item_dbroot_store(). This
function called filp_open(), following which these functions were called
(in reverse order), according to the call trace:
down_read
__configfs_open_file
do_dentry_open
vfs_open
do_open
path_openat
do_filp_open
file_open…
Affected Packages5 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linuxb0841eefd9693827afb9888235e26ddd098f9cef — 3161ef61f121d4573cad5b57c92188dcd9b284b3+9
🔴Vulnerability Details
3OSV▶
CVE-2026-23292: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: target: Fix recursive locking in __configfs_open_file() In flush_write_buffe↗2026-03-25
GHSA▶
GHSA-55fh-fmpq-w8h6: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: target: Fix recursive locking in __configfs_open_file()
In flush_write_buf↗2026-03-25