{"id":"CVE-2026-80924","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-80924","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T23:58:40.648Z","title":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: krb5 - use kfree_sensitive() for derived key buffers crypto_krb5_prepare_encryption() and crypto_krb5_prepare_checksum() free the buffer holding the freshly derived keys with…","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncrypto: krb5 - use kfree_sensitive() for derived key buffers\n\ncrypto_krb5_prepare_encryption() and crypto_krb5_prepare_checksum()\nfree the buffer holding the freshly derived keys with plain kfree(),\nleaving the key material behind in the freed slab object.","published":"2026-09-09T17:17:48.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-19T09:17:23.000Z","status":"Received","sourceIdentifier":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"},"cwe":[],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00322,"percentile":0.25004,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.32%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/731a5b6fb4c1705f9405d9029dd64ea81e336207","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/91b96dc9cc250cd16751f53de525cf3442ca0962","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a1bf79365794783b19f5b09e8a23f7ee311e8931","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f7d53dd3f267e46a784f219a75072f2f400d42b9","source":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-80924","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."}