CVE-2026-46012rxrpc: Fix memory leaks in rxkad_verify_response()
- 5.5MediumCVSS base score
- 0.12%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 98% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rxrpc: Fix memory leaks in rxkad_verify_response() Fix rxkad_verify_response() to free the ticket and the server key under all circumstances by initialising the ticket pointer to NULL and then making all paths through the function after the first allocation has been done go through a single common epilogue that just releases everything - where all the releases skip on a NULL pointer.
Timeline
ID reserved
By Linux
- 14 days later
· 14 days later
Published
- 5 months later
· 5 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.12% · top 98% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Affected products
- affected ec832bd06d6fdf08b0455ab7c2a7a9104e029638 – < c14433e967cff95bebc77c9c4a2a0ed4e0e22783
- affected ec832bd06d6fdf08b0455ab7c2a7a9104e029638 – < c4b8f32e73eafd4a5076be890c7c8506ec04567c
- affected ec832bd06d6fdf08b0455ab7c2a7a9104e029638 – < 852b9d64cea421336579b2de3d1338dfa677e2dd
- affected ec832bd06d6fdf08b0455ab7c2a7a9104e029638 – < 861b9a0a1823bf064a7b810d29502a9ef043f40f
- affected ec832bd06d6fdf08b0455ab7c2a7a9104e029638 – < c91f33fb8356dedc82bc56ce210f1a5dbee62a52
- affected ec832bd06d6fdf08b0455ab7c2a7a9104e029638 – < 34f61a07e0cdefaecd3ec03bb5fb22215643678f
- affected 5.11
- unaffected < 5.11
- unaffected 6.1.191 – ≤ 6.1.*
- unaffected 6.6.140 – ≤ 6.6.*
- unaffected 6.12.86 – ≤ 6.12.*
- unaffected 6.18.27 – ≤ 6.18.*
- unaffected 7.0.4 – ≤ 7.0.*
- unaffected 7.1 – ≤ *
References
References6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c14433e967cff95bebc77c9c4a2a0ed4e0e22783 (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c4b8f32e73eafd4a5076be890c7c8506ec04567c (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/852b9d64cea421336579b2de3d1338dfa677e2dd (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/861b9a0a1823bf064a7b810d29502a9ef043f40f (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c91f33fb8356dedc82bc56ce210f1a5dbee62a52 (opens in a new tab)
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/34f61a07e0cdefaecd3ec03bb5fb22215643678f (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-32309 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2026-46012)Record last updated .