CVE-2026-31643 (GCVE-0-2026-31643)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-24 14:44 – Updated: 2026-05-11 22:12
VLAI
Title
rxrpc: Fix key parsing memleak
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rxrpc: Fix key parsing memleak In rxrpc_preparse_xdr_yfs_rxgk(), the memory attached to token->rxgk can be leaked in a few error paths after it's allocated. Fix this by freeing it in the "reject_token:" case.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 0ca100ff4df64f5d0f6c1dd5080c3e096786bea6 , < d5f76f812d2c0ea6dd651b0586be49e85ecca085 (git)
Affected: 0ca100ff4df64f5d0f6c1dd5080c3e096786bea6 , < 01f51318feb626deee1d0c8a190198cd7857d599 (git)
Affected: 0ca100ff4df64f5d0f6c1dd5080c3e096786bea6 , < b555912b9b21075e8298015f888ffe3ff60b1a97 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.16
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.16 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.23 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19.13 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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