CVE-2026-43090
5.5 MEDIUMIn the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xfrm: fix refcount leak in xfrm_migrate_policy_find syzkaller repor...
Published: 2026-05-06 · Last updated: 2026-05-19
Severity and scoring
- CVSS
- 5.5 MEDIUM
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xfrm: fix refcount leak in xfrm_migrate_policy_find syzkaller reported a memory leak in xfrm_policy_alloc: BUG: memory leak unreferenced object 0xffff888114d79000 (size 1024): comm "syz.1.17", pid 931 ... xfrm_policy_alloc+0xb3/0x4b0 net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c:432 The root cause is a double call to xfrm_pol_hold_rcu() in xfrm_migrate_policy_find(). The lookup function already returns a policy with held reference, making the second call redundant. Remove the redundant xfrm_pol_hold_rcu() call to fix the refcount imbalance and prevent the memory leak. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.
Source: NVD
References
- [NVD]https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-43090
- [Patch]https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/21e235a36cfb6d145cefb10728f12f5dc5412f54
- [Patch]https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/70c2a89a3bc207c3bfbf6f21bb439809e0a4a27a
- [Patch]https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/83317cce60a032c49480dcdabe146435bd689d03
- [Patch]https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/836ee1b0426ea3db31531e9581cc32f513d24e32
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