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Linux Kernel CVE-2026-43396

| EUVD-2026-28702 MEDIUM
Memory Leak (CWE-401)
2026-05-08 Linux GHSA-j5jq-r673-59h3
5.5
CVSS 3.1
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CVSS VectorNVD

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

Lifecycle Timeline

4
Analysis Generated
May 21, 2026 - 22:03 vuln.today
CVSS changed
May 21, 2026 - 19:37 NVD
5.5 (MEDIUM)
Patch available
May 08, 2026 - 16:18 EUVD
CVE Published
May 08, 2026 - 14:21 nvd
UNKNOWN (no severity yet)

DescriptionNVD

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

drm/xe/sync: Fix user fence leak on alloc failure

When dma_fence_chain_alloc() fails, properly release the user fence reference to prevent a memory leak.

(cherry picked from commit a5d5634cde48a9fcd68c8504aa07f89f175074a0)

AnalysisAI

Memory leak in the Linux kernel's drm/xe (Intel Xe GPU) sync subsystem allows a local low-privileged user to cause a denial of service by exhausting kernel memory. The flaw exists in the drm/xe/sync error-handling path: when dma_fence_chain_alloc() fails, the user fence reference is not properly released (CWE-401), leaving allocated memory permanently inaccessible to the allocator. …

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