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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published May 1, 2024· Updated May 4, 2025

SUNRPC: fix a memleak in gss_import_v2_context

CVE-2023-52653

Description

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

SUNRPC: fix a memleak in gss_import_v2_context

The ctx->mech_used.data allocated by kmemdup is not freed in neither gss_import_v2_context nor it only caller gss_krb5_import_sec_context, which frees ctx on error.

Thus, this patch reform the last call of gss_import_v2_context to the gss_krb5_import_ctx_v2, preventing the memleak while keepping the return formation.

Affected products

164

Patches

0

No patches discovered yet.

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