CVE-2026-45959

high

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 { ... } **`.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d5abcc33ee76bc26d58b39dc1a097e43a99dd438

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9a3ace9b010ffd8c422c97844ae152f7c53d6b18

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/90f9090e3e744a8fe3bb6fa0e61f577347728b0b

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-05-27

Updated: 2026-05-30

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00017