CVE-2026-43090

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43090
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-43090.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-43090
Downstream
Published
2026-05-06T07:40:23.286Z
Modified
2026-07-08T08:09:34.261952197Z
Summary
xfrm: fix refcount leak in xfrm_migrate_policy_find
Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

xfrm: fix refcount leak in xfrmmigratepolicy_find

syzkaller reported a memory leak in xfrmpolicyalloc:

BUG: memory leak unreferenced object 0xffff888114d79000 (size 1024): comm "syz.1.17", pid 931 ... xfrmpolicyalloc+0xb3/0x4b0 net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c:432

The root cause is a double call to xfrmpolholdrcu() in xfrmmigratepolicyfind(). The lookup function already returns a policy with held reference, making the second call redundant.

Remove the redundant xfrmpolhold_rcu() call to fix the refcount imbalance and prevent the memory leak.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.

Database specific
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/43xxx/CVE-2026-43090.json",
    "cna_assigner": "Linux"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
563d5ca93e883b9dcb4b7dc8967ac569fd91820d
Fixed
21e235a36cfb6d145cefb10728f12f5dc5412f54
Fixed
836ee1b0426ea3db31531e9581cc32f513d24e32
Fixed
70c2a89a3bc207c3bfbf6f21bb439809e0a4a27a
Fixed
83317cce60a032c49480dcdabe146435bd689d03

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-43090.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.12.0
Fixed
6.12.83
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.13.0
Fixed
6.18.24
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.19.0
Fixed
6.19.14

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-43090.json"