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GHSA-J9P6-994V-55HW

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-10-18 18:32 – Updated: 2026-10-18 18:32

Details

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

module: fix lost error code from codetag_load_module()

If codetag_load_module() fails, err is not set to reflect the failure and load_module() returns 0 after the module has been torn down.

Also, if the module is a livepatch, mod->klp_info allocated by copy_module_elf() leaks on this error path. Free it via a new livepatch_cleanup label.

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CVE-2026-98842 (GCVE-0-2026-98842)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-10-18 15:50 – Updated: 2026-10-18 15:50

Title

module: fix lost error code from codetag_load_module()

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: module: fix lost error code from codetag_load_module() If codetag_load_module() fails, err is not set to reflect the failure and load_module() returns 0 after the module has been torn down. Also, if the module is a livepatch, mod->klp_info allocated by copy_module_elf() leaks on this error path. Free it via a new livepatch_cleanup label.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 7100 records in the last 180 days details

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/258310d59a82ea485…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bfc721eef5c13704e…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c79cf15eb35a4c703…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 044d2aee6c575231ed4a24fb3d119bad0937488b , < 258310d59a82ea4854bfd9138682bbaac1153b19 (git) Affected: 044d2aee6c575231ed4a24fb3d119bad0937488b , < bfc721eef5c13704efe6864c7da2ad4b0d75f60a (git) Affected: 044d2aee6c575231ed4a24fb3d119bad0937488b , < c79cf15eb35a4c703bf18f8c33c47e80dd660f8e (git) Affected: b6bbbb8ef48dde09c0dbd77121fa0f09b0237fec (git) Affected: 6.15.4 , < 6.16 (semver)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 6.16 Unaffected: 0 , < 6.16 (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.56 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.2.10 , ≤ 7.2.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.3-rc6 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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