Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.10

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: afunix: Fixed a memory leak in newsk during unixstreamconnect. When preparepeercred fails in unixstreamconnect, unixreleasesock is not called for newsk, resulting in memory leakage. We have moved preparepeercred before unixcreate...

SUSE CVE-2026-45887

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: afunix: Fix memleak of newsk in unixstreamconnect. When preparepeercred fails in unixstreamconnect, unixreleasesock is not called for newsk, and the memory is leaked. Let's move preparepeercred before unixcreate1...

CVE-2026-45887

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: afunix: Fix memleak of newsk in unixstreamconnect. When preparepeercred fails in unixstreamconnect, unixreleasesock is not called for newsk, and the memory is leaked. Let's move preparepeercred before unixcreate1...

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-45887

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: afunix: Fix memleak of newsk in unixstreamconnect. When preparepeercred fails in unixstreamconnect, unixreleasesock is not called for newsk, and the memory is leaked. Let's move preparepeercred before unixcreate1...

CVE-2026-45887

CVE-2026-45887 affects the Linux kernel af_unix subsystem's unix_stream_connect() path. Root cause: if prepare_peercred() fails, unix_release_sock() is not called for the new socket (newsk), causing a memory leak. Impact: potential DoS or instability due to unreleased memory. Remediation: move pr...