Security Advisory

CVE-2026-45887

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2026-05-27 12:16:58

Last updated 2026-05-27 12:16:58

Assigner Linux

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: af_unix: Fix memleak of newsk in unix_stream_connect(). When prepare_peercred() fails in unix_stream_connect(), unix_release_sock() is not called for newsk, and the memory is leaked. Let's move prepare_peercred() before unix_create1().

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