CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-80924
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-09-09
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Description
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 plain kfree(),
leaving the key material behind in the freed slab object.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/731a5b6fb4c1705f9405d9029dd64ea81e336207 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/91b96dc9cc250cd16751f53de525cf3442ca0962 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a1bf79365794783b19f5b09e8a23f7ee311e8931 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f7d53dd3f267e46a784f219a75072f2f400d42b9 git.kernel.org