CVE intelligence

CVE-2026-97951

Vulnerability intelligence

Published Sep 25, 2026Sources checked Oct 24, 2026

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What this means

Review the available evidence

CVE-2026-97951. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.

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Vendor revision: Oct 23, 2026

Release Notes

CISA KEVNot listedBased on the latest collected catalog

EPSS0.2%Estimated 30-day exploitation probability

Ransomware useNot markedCISA KEV ransomware field

Threat actors0Source-linked actor relationships

Overview

What is CVE-2026-97951?

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

scsi: target: iscsi: Fix hang for aborted WRITE_PENDING commands

When a LUN_RESET aborts a WRITE command that is in the TRANSPORT_WRITE_PENDING state, the target core sets CMD_T_ABORTED and waits for the frontend to finish processing.

If the initiator subsequently sends the remaining dataout PDUs, __iscsit_check_dataout_hdr() catches the payload, stops the dataout timer if the sequence is final and finally dumps the data. However, the iSCSI target doesn't trigger the completion process for these aborted commands.

Because of this, the abort path hangs indefinitely in target_put_cmd_and_wait(), leading to a deadlocked target worker thread.

Fix this by explicitly calling target_complete_cmd() when the final dataout PDU is received for an aborted WRITE command. target_complete_cmd() detects the CMD_T_ABORTED flag and cleanly routes the command into target_abort_work, allowing the abort completion to successfully unblock.

Source: NVD