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
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/90f9090e3e744a8fe3bb6fa0e61f577347728b0b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9a3ace9b010ffd8c422c97844ae152f7c53d6b18 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d5abcc33ee76bc26d58b39dc1a097e43a99dd438 Patch
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 3
- CwesCWE-476 → CWE-476, CWE-787NVD modified 2026-10-19 20:18
- StatusAnalyzed → ModifiedNVD modified 2026-10-19 20:18
- First seenCVSS 7.8 · linuxNVD modified 2026-10-16 16:17
Affected (CPE criteria) 1
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*