CVE-2026-23164CWE-401

CVE-2026-23164

Medium · published February 14, 2026

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
2.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

rocker: fix memory leak in rocker_world_port_post_fini()

In rocker_world_port_pre_init(), rocker_port->wpriv is allocated with

kzalloc(wops->port_priv_size, GFP_KERNEL). However, in

rocker_world_port_post_fini(), the memory is only freed when

wops->port_post_fini callback is set:

if (!wops->port_post_fini)

return;

wops->port_post_fini(rocker_port);

kfree(rocker_port->wpriv);

Since rocker_ofdpa_ops does not implement port_post_fini callback

(it is NULL), the wpriv memory allocated for each port is never freed

when ports are removed. This leads to a memory leak of

sizeof(struct ofdpa_port) bytes per port on every device removal.

Fix this by always calling kfree(rocker_port->wpriv) regardless of

whether the port_post_fini callback exists.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00134 · 2.6th percentile
Weakness
CWE-401 · Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
Published
2026-02-14T21:15Z
Affected products (13)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
linux/linux_kernel≥ 4.6, < 5.10.2495.10.249
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.11, < 5.15.1995.15.199
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.16, < 6.1.1626.1.162
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.2, < 6.6.1236.6.123
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.7, < 6.12.696.12.69
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.13, < 6.18.96.18.9
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
linux/linux_kernelall versions—
References (7)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 14 FEB 16:01Z
    rocker: fix memory leak in rocker_world_port_post_fini()
    cvelistv5