CVE-2026-52932 (GCVE-0-2026-52932)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-06-24 07:14
Modified
2026-08-05 12:31
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xfrm: ipcomp: Free destination pages on acomp errors Move the out_free_req label up by a couple of lines so that the allocated dst SG list gets freed on error as well as success.
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Linux Linux Version: eb2953d26971f3083bbf95de4bc997b5bedf0b6e
Version: eb2953d26971f3083bbf95de4bc997b5bedf0b6e
Version: eb2953d26971f3083bbf95de4bc997b5bedf0b6e
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