CVE-2026-45959

crypto: ccp - Fix a crash due to incorrect cleanup usage of kfree

HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: May 27, 2026 at 12:18 PM UTC
Updated: October 19, 2026 at 08:18 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH7.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.1%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: ccp - Fix a crash due to incorrect cleanup usage of kfree Annotating a local pointer variable, which will be assigned with the kmalloc-family functions, with the `__cleanup(kfree)` attribute will make the address of the local variable, rather than the address returned by kmalloc, passed to kfree directly and lead to a crash due to invalid deallocation of stack address. According to other places in the repo, the correct usage should be `__free(kfree)`. The code coincidentally compiled because the parameter type `void *` of kfree is compatible with the desired type `struct { ... } **`.

Affected

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

6.17 ≤ v < 6.18.146.19 ≤ v < 6.19.46.17a71475582ada92ba021852bf3c2b40ab3718549b
Vendor states this is fixed in 90f9090e3e744a8fe3bb6fa0e61f577347728b0b (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 9a3ace9b010ffd8c422c97844ae152f7c53d6b18 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in d5abcc33ee76bc26d58b39dc1a097e43a99dd438 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.17 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.14 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.19.4 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.0 (unaffected)

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatableTotal impact

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CVSS

7.8HIGHLinux
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-476CWE-787

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