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CVE-2026-80924

7.5 high Published
NVD · CVE.org

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: krb5 - use kfree_sensitive() for derived key buffers crypto_krb5_prepare_encryption() and crypto_krb5_prepare_checksum() free the buffer holding the freshly derived keys with plain kfree(), leaving the key material behind in the freed slab object.

Fix

Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.

Change history 2

  1. StatusReceived → PublishedNVD modified 2026-10-19 08:45
  2. First seenCVSS 7.5NVD modified 2026-10-19 09:17

Affected (CPE criteria) 0

NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.

References 4