← CVE Intelligence

CVE-2026-45887

af_unix: Fix memleak of newsk in unix_stream_connect(). PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: af_unix: Fix memleak of newsk in unix_stream_connect(). When prepare_peercred() fails in unix_stream_connect(), unix_release_sock() is not called for newsk, and the memory is leaked. Let's move prepare_peercred() before unix_create1().

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected fd0a109a0f6b7524543d17520da92a44a9f5343c before 365996a2b14d07caa9e33d367b67ea26c09d89b4; affected fd0a109a0f6b7524543d17520da92a44a9f5343c before a5d95d7caba0160fb7b2b8d2bd96d5a1be861d9f; affected fd0a109a0f6b7524543d17520da92a44a9f5343c before 6884028cd7f275f8bcb854a347265cb1fb0e4bea
Linux / Linuxaffected 6.16; unaffected 0 before 6.16; unaffected 6.18.14 through 6.18.*; unaffected 6.19.4 through 6.19.*; unaffected 7.0 through *

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

References