CVE-2026-46171 (GCVE-0-2026-46171)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-28 09:36 – Updated: 2026-06-14 17:59
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Title
riscv: kvm: fix vector context allocation leak
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: riscv: kvm: fix vector context allocation leak When the second kzalloc (host_context.vector.datap) fails in kvm_riscv_vcpu_alloc_vector_context, the first allocation (guest_context.vector.datap) is leaked. Free it before returning.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: 0f4b82579716b12bb88257bd7ea80f25c791fb2c , < bd62c0f61bc722a097417401030c596cea8e21aa (git)
Affected: 0f4b82579716b12bb88257bd7ea80f25c791fb2c , < 1d57ab45ec5c0e22789de793bcf2a31ad6fb7d98 (git)
Affected: 0f4b82579716b12bb88257bd7ea80f25c791fb2c , < b7c958d7c1eb1cb9b2be7b5ee4129fcd66cec978 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.5
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.5 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.30 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0.7 , ≤ 7.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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