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CVE-2026-98842

module: fix lost error code from codetag_load_module() PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: module: fix lost error code from codetag_load_module() If codetag_load_module() fails, err is not set to reflect the failure and load_module() returns 0 after the module has been torn down. Also, if the module is a livepatch, mod->klp_info allocated by copy_module_elf() leaks on this error path. Free it via a new livepatch_cleanup label.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 044d2aee6c575231ed4a24fb3d119bad0937488b before 258310d59a82ea4854bfd9138682bbaac1153b19; affected 044d2aee6c575231ed4a24fb3d119bad0937488b before bfc721eef5c13704efe6864c7da2ad4b0d75f60a; affected 044d2aee6c575231ed4a24fb3d119bad0937488b before c79cf15eb35a4c703bf18f8c33c47e80dd660f8e; affected b6bbbb8ef48dde09c0dbd77121fa0f09b0237fec; affected 6.15.4 before 6.16
Linux / Linuxaffected 6.16; unaffected 0 before 6.16; unaffected 6.18.56 through 6.18.*; unaffected 7.2.10 through 7.2.*; unaffected 7.3 through *

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

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