CVE-2026-45964
Essential information
- Published
- 27/05/2026 16:17
- Modified
- 27/05/2026 14:48
- Author
- The MITRE Corporation
- Creator
- The MITRE Corporation
- CVSS
- 5.5 MEDIUM (v3.1)
- CISA KEV
- No
- CWE
- CWE-401
- EPSS (First)
- P11.2% EPSS percentile: rank of this vulnerability versus all others. Higher percentile = more likely to be exploited. Learn more (score 0.00210)
- CVSS vector
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CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H—
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- Attack vector
- LOCAL
- Attack complexity
- LOW
- Privileges required
- LOW
- User interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality impact
- NONE
- Integrity impact
- NONE
- Availability impact
- HIGH
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Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
SUNRPC: fix gss_auth kref leak in gss_alloc_msg error path
Commit 5940d1cf9f42 ("SUNRPC: Rebalance a kref in auth_gss.c") added
a kref_get(&gss_auth->kref) call to balance the gss_put_auth() done
in gss_release_msg(), but forgot to add a corresponding kref_put()
on the error path when kstrdup_const() fails.
If service_name is non-NULL and kstrdup_const() fails, the function
jumps to err_put_pipe_version which calls put_pipe_version() and
kfree(gss_msg), but never releases the gss_auth reference. This leads
to a kref leak where the gss_auth structure is never freed.
Add a forward declaration for gss_free_callback() and call kref_put()
in the err_put_pipe_version error path to properly release the
reference taken earlier.
NVD status
- Status
- Awaiting Analysis — CVE has been marked for Analysis. Normally once in this state the CVE will be analyzed by NVD staff within 24 hours.
- Source
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- NVD
- View on NVD
Affected products (CPE)
| Product | CPE |
|---|---|
| linux / kernel | cpe:2.3:a:linux:kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |