CVE-2026-43090
MEDIUMxfrm: fix refcount leak in xfrm_migrate_policy_find
Title source: cnaDescription
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.
References (4)
Core 4
Core References
Scores
CVSS v3
5.5
EPSS
0.0001
EPSS Percentile
2.2%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details
Status
published
Products (12)
Linux/Linux
< 6.12
Linux/Linux
563d5ca93e883b9dcb4b7dc8967ac569fd91820d - 21e235a36cfb6d145cefb10728f12f5dc5412f54
Linux/Linux
563d5ca93e883b9dcb4b7dc8967ac569fd91820d - 70c2a89a3bc207c3bfbf6f21bb439809e0a4a27a
Linux/Linux
563d5ca93e883b9dcb4b7dc8967ac569fd91820d - 83317cce60a032c49480dcdabe146435bd689d03
Linux/Linux
563d5ca93e883b9dcb4b7dc8967ac569fd91820d - 836ee1b0426ea3db31531e9581cc32f513d24e32
Linux/Linux
6.12
Linux/Linux
6.12.83 - 6.12.*
Linux/Linux
6.18.24 - 6.18.*
Linux/Linux
6.19.14 - 6.19.*
Linux/Linux
7.0
... and 2 more
Published
May 06, 2026
Tracked Since
May 06, 2026