CVE-2026-52932 (GCVE-0-2026-52932)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-24 07:14 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:31
VLAI
Title
xfrm: ipcomp: Free destination pages on acomp errors
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xfrm: ipcomp: Free destination pages on acomp errors Move the out_free_req label up by a couple of lines so that the allocated dst SG list gets freed on error as well as success.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: eb2953d26971f3083bbf95de4bc997b5bedf0b6e , < dc6dcba80d72a27ab61831ad3d253316e0c9b9d5 (git)
Affected: eb2953d26971f3083bbf95de4bc997b5bedf0b6e , < b30aa173c3809f6af4c83a86099be1be19aa48eb (git)
Affected: eb2953d26971f3083bbf95de4bc997b5bedf0b6e , < 7dbac7680eb629b3b4dc7e98c34f943b8814c0c8 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.15
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.15 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.35 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0.12 , ≤ 7.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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