Medium severity · published Feb 18, 2026
CVE-2026-23229
crypto: virtio - Add spinlock protection with virtqueue notification
5.5
CVSS
0.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.1% · higher than 3% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
KE
Kernel · Linux
4.19.306 before 4.20; 5.4.268 before 5.5; 5.10.209 before 5.10.251; 5.15.148 before 5.15.201; 6.1.75 before 6.1.164; 6.6.14 before 6.6.125; +3 more · source: NVD
LI
Linux · Linux
0eb69890e86775d178452880ea0d24384c5ccedf before 552475d0b6cece73a52c0fa5faa0ce45e99df74b; 75cba72ddb788a5b9c7ed2139fbb84383df029eb before 8ee8ccfd60bf17cbdab91069d324b5302f4f3a30; ae4747dab2eab95a68bb2f6c7e904bff0424e1b1 before c9e594194795c86ca753ad6ed64c2762e9309d0d; c4c54fce9ec54a59a4ca035af13c2823c76684cc before d6f0d586808689963e58fd739bed626ff5013b24; fed93fb62e05c38152b0fc1dc9609639e63eed76 before c0a0ded3bb7fd45f720faa48449a930153257d3a; fed93fb62e05c38152b0fc1dc9609639e63eed76 before e69a7b0a71b6561b3b6459f1fded8d589f2e8ac2; +13 more · source: vendor
RR
RUGGEDCOM RST2428P · Siemens
before V4.0 · source: CISA