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CVE-2026-43090

xfrm: fix refcount leak in xfrm_migrate_policy_find

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.
Daten sind bereitgestellt durch das CVE Programm von einer CVE Numbering Authority (CNA) (Unstrukturiert).
HerstellerLinux
Produkt Linux
Default Statusunaffected
Version 563d5ca93e883b9dcb4b7dc8967ac569fd91820d
Version < 21e235a36cfb6d145cefb10728f12f5dc5412f54
Status affected
Version 563d5ca93e883b9dcb4b7dc8967ac569fd91820d
Version < 836ee1b0426ea3db31531e9581cc32f513d24e32
Status affected
Version 563d5ca93e883b9dcb4b7dc8967ac569fd91820d
Version < 70c2a89a3bc207c3bfbf6f21bb439809e0a4a27a
Status affected
Version 563d5ca93e883b9dcb4b7dc8967ac569fd91820d
Version < 83317cce60a032c49480dcdabe146435bd689d03
Status affected
HerstellerLinux
Produkt Linux
Default Statusaffected
Version 6.12
Status affected
Version 0
Version < 6.12
Status unaffected
Version <= 6.12.*
Version 6.12.83
Status unaffected
Version <= 6.18.*
Version 6.18.24
Status unaffected
Version <= 6.19.*
Version 6.19.14
Status unaffected
Version <= *
Version 7.0
Status unaffected
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