Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published May 28, 2026· Updated Jun 11, 2026

CVE-2026-46171

Description

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

riscv: kvm: fix vector context allocation leak

When the second kzalloc (host_context.vector.datap) fails in kvm_riscv_vcpu_alloc_vector_context, the first allocation (guest_context.vector.datap) is leaked. Free it before returning.

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Affected products

SUSE S.A./Linux Enterprise Debuginfoinferred
Linux/Kernelllm-fuzzy
osv-coords
pkg:rpm/opensuse/kernel-source&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed
Range: < 7.0.11-1.1

Patches

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References

git.kernel.org/stable/c/1d57ab45ec5c0e22789de793bcf2a31ad6fb7d98nvdPatch
git.kernel.org/stable/c/b7c958d7c1eb1cb9b2be7b5ee4129fcd66cec978nvdPatch
git.kernel.org/stable/c/bd62c0f61bc722a097417401030c596cea8e21aanvdPatch

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