CVE-2026-23072
lowCVSS v3 Base Score
5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score
0.0%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 94% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Vulnerability Report
Generated by CyberWatcher
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
l2tp: Fix memleak in l2tp_udp_encap_recv().
syzbot reported memleak of struct l2tp_session, l2tp_tunnel,
sock, etc. [0]
The cited commit moved down the validation of the protocol
version in l2tp_udp_encap_recv().
The new place requires an extra error handling to avoid the
memleak.
Let's call l2tp_session_put() there.
[0]:
BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff88810a290200 (size 512):
comm "syz.0.17", pid 6086, jiffies 4294944299
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
7d eb 04 0c 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 }...............
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace (crc babb6a4f):
kmemleak_alloc_recursive include/linux/kmemleak.h:44 [inline]
slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4958 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:5263 [inline]
__do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:5656 [inline]
__kmalloc_noprof+0x3e0/0x660 mm/slub.c:5669
kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:961 [inline]
kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1094 [inline]
l2tp_session_create+0x3a/0x3b0 net/l2tp/l2tp_core.c:1778
pppol2tp_connect+0x48b/0x920 net/l2tp/l2tp_ppp.c:755
__sys_connect_file+0x7a/0xb0 net/socket.c:2089
__sys_connect+0xde/0x110 net/socket.c:2108
__do_sys_connect net/socket.c:2114 [inline]
__se_sys_connect net/socket.c:2111 [inline]
__x64_sys_connect+0x1c/0x30 net/socket.c:2111
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xa4/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
CWE
CWE-911Affected Products
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9