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CVE-2026-45959

7.8 high SSVC exploitation: none Modified

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 { ... } **`.

Fix

Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 3

Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.

Change history 3

  1. CwesCWE-476 → CWE-476, CWE-787NVD modified 2026-10-19 20:18
  2. StatusAnalyzed → ModifiedNVD modified 2026-10-19 20:18
  3. First seenCVSS 7.8 · linuxNVD modified 2026-10-16 16:17

Affected (CPE criteria) 1

  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References 3