{"id":"CVE-2026-45964","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-45964","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T08:09:32.732Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: SUNRPC: fix gss_auth kref leak in gss_alloc_msg error path Commit 5940d1cf9f42 (\"SUNRPC: Rebalance a kref in auth_gss.c\") added a kref_get(&gss_auth->kref) call to balance the…","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nSUNRPC: fix gss_auth kref leak in gss_alloc_msg error path\n\nCommit 5940d1cf9f42 (\"SUNRPC: Rebalance a kref in auth_gss.c\") added\na kref_get(&gss_auth->kref) call to balance the gss_put_auth() done\nin gss_release_msg(), but forgot to add a corresponding kref_put()\non the error path when kstrdup_const() fails.\n\nIf service_name is non-NULL and kstrdup_const() fails, the function\njumps to err_put_pipe_version which calls put_pipe_version() and\nkfree(gss_msg), but never releases the gss_auth reference. This leads\nto a kref leak where the gss_auth structure is never freed.\n\nAdd a forward declaration for gss_free_callback() and call kref_put()\nin the err_put_pipe_version error path to properly release the\nreference taken earlier.","published":"2026-05-27T14:17:13.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T10:52:49.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-401"],"affected":["linux/linux kernel"],"epss":{"score":0.0016,"percentile":0.05125,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.16%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3b2b6c42070ce4204936288253baf101e995c2d3","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/655c9ba9915f05266998dbbf4b76b3c79b8a70aa","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a1bc9561b617ec7e2d09e6c134d1db8fcf9ca4a6","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a2d4e9a76de0b2178001214ba5de5bf94a7354aa","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b559be2ec6cdb2e9c2c36c23fbbd4690d8a5c3f7","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c20f925214249bb4fc04f7e197bea142a6438af6","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dd2fdc3504592d85e549c523b054898a036a6afe","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e464e26b2457005c87e158570498274b9f3b90c7","tags":["Patch"],"source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-45964","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}