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FKIE_CVE-2026-23028

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-01-31 12:16 - Updated: 2026-01-31 12:16

Severity ?

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: LoongArch: KVM: Fix kvm_device leak in kvm_ipi_destroy() In kvm_ioctl_create_device(), kvm_device has allocated memory, kvm_device->destroy() seems to be supposed to free its kvm_device struct, but kvm_ipi_destroy() is not currently doing this, that would lead to a memory leak. So, fix it.

References

	URL	Tags
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0bf58cb7288a4d3de6d8ecbb3a65928a9362bf21
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5defcc2f9c22e6e09b5be68234ad10f4ba0292b7

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	Vendor	Product	Version

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      "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nLoongArch: KVM: Fix kvm_device leak in kvm_ipi_destroy()\n\nIn kvm_ioctl_create_device(), kvm_device has allocated memory,\nkvm_device-\u003edestroy() seems to be supposed to free its kvm_device\nstruct, but kvm_ipi_destroy() is not currently doing this, that\nwould lead to a memory leak.\n\nSo, fix it."
    }
  ],
  "id": "CVE-2026-23028",
  "lastModified": "2026-01-31T12:16:06.120",
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CVE-2026-23028 (GCVE-0-2026-23028)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-31 11:42 – Updated: 2026-01-31 11:42

Title

LoongArch: KVM: Fix kvm_device leak in kvm_ipi_destroy()

Summary

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux

References

URL

Tags

	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5defcc2f9c22e6e09…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0bf58cb7288a4d3de…

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

Linux

Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 5defcc2f9c22e6e09b5be68234ad10f4ba0292b7 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 0bf58cb7288a4d3de6d8ecbb3a65928a9362bf21 (git)

Linux

Unaffected: 6.18.7 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19-rc6 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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FKIE_CVE-2026-23028

CVE-2026-23028 (GCVE-0-2026-23028)

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