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GHSA-2VJX-859R-QM27

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-01-31 12:30 – Updated: 2026-01-31 12:30

Details

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.

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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

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.

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

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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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GHSA-2VJX-859R-QM27

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

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