Memory Leak Affecting kernel-docs-html package, versions <6.12.0-160000.35.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (3rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES1600-KERNELDOCSHTML-17355227
  • published17 Jun 2026
  • disclosed15 Jun 2026

Introduced: 15 Jun 2026

NewCVE-2026-43394  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:16.0.0 kernel-docs-html to version 6.12.0-160000.35.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-docs-html package and not the kernel-docs-html package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:16.0.0 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

nfsd: Fix cred ref leak in nfsd_nl_listener_set_doit().

nfsd_nl_listener_set_doit() uses get_current_cred() without put_cred().

As we can see from other callers, svc_xprt_create_from_sa() does not require the extra refcount.

nfsd_nl_listener_set_doit() is always in the process context, sendmsg(), and current->cred does not go away.

Let's use current_cred() in nfsd_nl_listener_set_doit().

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1