CVE-2026-23229

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel - Denial of Service via Virtio-Crypto Data Virtqueue Race Condition

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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 protection when it is handled for virtio done notification. If the spinlock protection is added in virtcrypto_done_task(), openssl benchmark with multiple processes works well.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0003
EPSS Percentile 9.3%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (40)
linux/Kernel < 5.10.251linux
linux/Kernel < 6.6.125linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.201linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.164linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.18.11linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.19.1linux
linux/Kernel 6.19.0 - 6.19.1linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.125linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.72linux
linux/Kernel 6.8.0 - 6.18.11linux
... and 30 more
Published Feb 18, 2026
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026