gss_mech_free in net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_mech_switch.c in the rpcsec_gss_krb5 implementation in the Linux kernel through 5.6.10 lacks certain domain_release calls, leading to a memory leak. Note: This was disputed with the assertion that the issue does not grant any access not already available. It is a problem that on unloading a specific kernel module some memory is leaked, but loading kernel modules is a privileged operation. A user could also write a kernel module to consume any amount of memory they like and load that replicating the effect of this bug
CPE | Name | Operator | Version |
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ubuntu_linux | eq | 18.04 | |
ubuntu_linux | eq | 14.04 | |
ubuntu_linux | eq | 20.04 | |
ubuntu_linux | eq | 16.04 | |
linux_kernel | le | 5.6.10 | |
leap | eq | 15.1 | |
leap | eq | 15.2 |