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
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
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 7.8 High | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | Linux |
Weaknesses
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
LinuxLinux |
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LinuxLinux |
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References
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