CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-31639
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-04-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
rxrpc: Fix key reference count leak from call->key
When creating a client call in rxrpc_alloc_client_call(), the code obtains
a reference to the key. This is never cleaned up and gets leaked when the
call is destroyed.
Fix this by freeing call->key in rxrpc_destroy_call().
Before the patch, it shows the key reference counter elevated:
$ cat /proc/keys | grep afs@54321
1bffe9cd I--Q--i 8053480 4169w 3b010000 1000 1000 rxrpc afs@54321: ka
$
After the patch, the invalidated key is removed when the code exits:
$ cat /proc/keys | grep afs@54321
$
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2.1 < 6.6.135)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.82)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.23)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 6.19.13)
• linux linux kernel 6.2
• linux linux kernel 7.0
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2e6ef713b1598f6acd7f302fa6b12b6731c89914 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/978108902ee4ef2b348ff7ec36ad014dc5bc6dc6 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d666540d217e8d420544ebdfbadeedd623562733 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e6b7943c5dc875647499da09bf4d50a8557ab0c3 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f1a7a3ab0f35f83cf11bba906b9e948cf3788c28 Patch