CVE-2026-43419 (GCVE-0-2026-43419)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-08 14:21 – Updated: 2026-05-23 16:06
VLAI
Title
ceph: fix memory leaks in ceph_mdsc_build_path()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ceph: fix memory leaks in ceph_mdsc_build_path() Add __putname() calls to error code paths that did not free the "path" pointer obtained by __getname(). If ownership of this pointer is not passed to the caller via path_info.path, the function must 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: 3fd945a79e147ee10f84213976889b29049c3519 , < 657dc653b06a3cc0282aea447a3f137fa94066a4 (git)
Affected: 3fd945a79e147ee10f84213976889b29049c3519 , < 5895d0164c84d7fec6abc198920c257f55c51899 (git)
Affected: 3fd945a79e147ee10f84213976889b29049c3519 , < 097cd68f46686391a98f2618188f0cb7b7570de2 (git)
Affected: 3fd945a79e147ee10f84213976889b29049c3519 , < 13b8b9d6f59ef17fb96c298c3a0d62a8306950cc (git)
Affected: 3fd945a79e147ee10f84213976889b29049c3519 , < 040d159a45ded7f33201421a81df0aa2a86e5a0b (git)
Affected: 0f2b2d9e881c90402dbe28f9ba831775b7992e1f (git)
Affected: d42ad3f161a5a487f81915c406f46943c7187a0a (git)
Affected: e4b168c64da06954be5d520f6c16469b1cadc069 (git)
Affected: 5.10.234 , < 5.11 (semver)
Affected: 5.15.177 , < 5.16 (semver)
Affected: 6.1.125 , < 6.2 (semver)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.6
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.6 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.130 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.78 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.19 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19.9 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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