CVE-2026-45870
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
SUNRPC: auth_gss: fix memory leaks in XDR decoding error paths
The gssx_dec_ctx(), gssx_dec_status(), and gssx_dec_name() functions allocate memory via gssx_dec_buffer(), which calls kmemdup(). When a subsequent decode operation fails, these functions return immediately without freeing previously allocated buffers, causing memory leaks.
The leak in gssx_dec_ctx() is particularly relevant because the caller (gssp_accept_sec_context_upcall) initializes several buffer length fields to non-zero values, resulting in memory allocation:
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If, for example, gssx_dec_name() succeeds for src_name but fails for targ_name, the memory allocated for exported_context_token, mech, and src_name.display_name remains unreferenced and cannot be reclaimed.
Add error handling with goto-based cleanup to free any previously allocated buffers before returning an error.
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struct gssx_ctx rctxh = {
.exported_context_token.len = GSSX_max_output_handle_sz,
.mech.len = GSS_OID_MAX_LEN,
.src_name.display_name.len = GSSX_max_princ_sz,
.targ_name.display_name.len = GSSX_max_princ_sz
};CVSS
- Versión: 3.1
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Puntuación base: 5.5
Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)
- Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 0.16%
- Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 5
- Fecha de la puntuación: 6/10/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).
Tecnologías afectadas (1)
CWE
- CWE-401
Referencias
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3b56eb90feb8a3709417f5624f3871847d42bcb1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3e6397b056335cc56ef0e9da36c95946a19f5118
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/64303b92d94c0c7845a273acd8d84b796d6f1db7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b4af3806846778799cd4ab0766dc18341e777264
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c81431b1b9fbd21e9a5a9211b5517b7295d18e6a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/caf7eff432e91a9eba1c79fa545c2f54be15d62b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d79b9097a6a2b91471b40755f1225364be5d85ff
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/df10f23defff22c8d55fe6db74f6e4ce927145bf
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