Vulnerability Details CVE-2026-45959
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 { ... } **`.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.001
EPSS Ranking 2.7%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 7.8
References
Products affected by CVE-2026-45959
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17.1
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17.10
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17.11
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17.12
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17.13
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17.2
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17.3
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17.4
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17.5
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17.6
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17.7
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17.8
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17.9
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.18
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.18.1
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.18.10
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.18.11
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.18.13
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.18.2
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.18.3
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.18.4
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.18.5
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.18.6
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.18.7
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.18.8
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.18.9
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.19
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.19.1
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.19.3