CVE-2026-45959

crypto: ccp - Fix a crash due to incorrect cleanup usage of kfree

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
May 27, 2026
Updated
Oct 19, 2026
Reserved
May 13, 2026

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Description

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

crypto: ccp - Fix a crash due to incorrect cleanup usage of kfree

Annotating a local pointer variable, which will be assigned with the kmalloc-family functions, with the `__cleanup(kfree)` attribute will make the address of the local variable, rather than the address returned by kmalloc, passed to kfree directly and lead to a crash due to invalid deallocation of stack address. According to other places in the repo, the correct usage should be `__free(kfree)`. The code coincidentally compiled because the parameter type `void *` of kfree is compatible with the desired type `struct { ... } **`.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • a71475582ada92ba021852bf3c2b40ab3718549b to before 9a3ace9b010ffd8c422c97844ae152f7c53d6b18Affected
  • a71475582ada92ba021852bf3c2b40ab3718549b to before 90f9090e3e744a8fe3bb6fa0e61f577347728b0bAffected
  • a71475582ada92ba021852bf3c2b40ab3718549b to before d5abcc33ee76bc26d58b39dc1a097e43a99dd438Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.17Affected
  • before 6.17Not affected
  • 6.18.14 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 6.19.4 through 6.19.*Not affected
  • 7.0 and laterNot affected

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