CVE-2023-52653
kernel: SUNRPC: fix a memleak in gss_import_v2_context
Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · May 1, 2024
Updated · October 29, 2026
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.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-772 · Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime