CVE-2026-43090

MediumCVSS 5.5/10Last modified Nov 11, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 5.5/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected software

VendorProductVersions
LinuxLinux>= 563d5ca93e883b9dcb4b7dc8967ac569fd91820d, < 21e235a36cfb6d145cefb10728f12f5dc5412f54; >= 563d5ca93e883b9dcb4b7dc8967ac569fd91820d, < 836ee1b0426ea3db31531e9581cc32f513d24e32; >= 563d5ca93e883b9dcb4b7dc8967ac569fd91820d, < 70c2a89a3bc207c3bfbf6f21bb439809e0a4a27a; >= 563d5ca93e883b9dcb4b7dc8967ac569fd91820d, < 83317cce60a032c49480dcdabe146435bd689d03
LinuxLinux6.12

References

Timeline

Published
May 6, 2026
Last modified
Nov 11, 2026
NVD status
Analyzed

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CVE-2026-43090: Medium severity, CVSS 5.5 | Vulnix