CVE-2026-23330 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime in Linux
Severity
6.9MEDIUM
No vectorEPSS
0.0%
top 94.13%
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:
nfc: nci: complete pending data exchange on device close
In nci_close_device(), complete any pending data exchange before
closing. The data exchange callback (e.g.
rawsock_data_exchange_complete) holds a socket reference.
NIPA occasionally hits this leak:
unreferenced object 0xff1100000f435000 (size 2048):
comm "nci_dev", pid 3954, jiffies 4295441245
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 …
Affected Packages3 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux38f04c6b1b682f1879441e2925403ad9aff9e229 — 91ff0d8c3464da7f0c43da38c195e60b660128bf+3
🔴Vulnerability Details
4OSV▶
CVE-2026-23330: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nfc: nci: complete pending data exchange on device close In nci_close_device(), co↗2026-03-25
GHSA▶
GHSA-vjm5-v2mx-wqmv: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nfc: nci: complete pending data exchange on device close
In nci_close_device(),↗2026-03-25