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CVE-2026-80924

crypto: krb5 - use kfree_sensitive() for derived key buffers PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

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.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 3936f02bf2d3308a7359dd37dd96cd60603d8170 before 731a5b6fb4c1705f9405d9029dd64ea81e336207; affected 3936f02bf2d3308a7359dd37dd96cd60603d8170 before 91b96dc9cc250cd16751f53de525cf3442ca0962; affected 3936f02bf2d3308a7359dd37dd96cd60603d8170 before a1bf79365794783b19f5b09e8a23f7ee311e8931; affected 3936f02bf2d3308a7359dd37dd96cd60603d8170 before f7d53dd3f267e46a784f219a75072f2f400d42b9
Linux / Linuxaffected 6.15; unaffected 0 before 6.15; unaffected 6.18.49 through 6.18.*; unaffected 7.1.13 through 7.1.*; unaffected 7.2.3 through 7.2.*; unaffected 7.3 through *

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

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