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CVE-2026-45887

Vulnerability 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().

Vulnerability Details

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Source
NVD
Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux

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