CVE-2026-43090

xfrm: fix refcount leak in xfrm_migrate_policy_find

MEDIUM
5.5
CVSS Score
Published: May 6, 2026 at 07:40 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 10:48 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
MEDIUM5.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.1%

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

6.12 ≤ v < 6.12.836.12 ≤ v < 6.18.246.12 ≤ v < 6.19.146.12 ≤ v < 7.06.13 ≤ v < 6.18.246.19 ≤ v < 6.19.14563d5ca93e883b9dcb4b7dc8967ac569fd91820d6.127.0 rc17.0 rc27.0 rc37.0 rc47.0 rc57.0 rc67.0 rc7
Vendor states this is fixed in 21e235a36cfb6d145cefb10728f12f5dc5412f54 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 70c2a89a3bc207c3bfbf6f21bb439809e0a4a27a (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 83317cce60a032c49480dcdabe146435bd689d03 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 836ee1b0426ea3db31531e9581cc32f513d24e32 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.83 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.24 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.19.14 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.0 (unaffected)

CVSS

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

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