Not a U.S. government website. NDD is an independent vulnerability database by Volerion and is not affiliated with or endorsed by NIST or NVD.
VOLERION
Volerion Security Research

NOT DEFERRED DATABASE

VULNERABILITIES

CVE-2026-80924 Details

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: krb5 - use kfree_sensitive() for derived key buffers crypto_krb5_prepare_encryption() and crypto_krb5_prepare_checksum() free the buffer holding the freshly derived keys with plain kfree(), leaving the key material behind in the freed slab object.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

CNA: kernel.orgCVSS-B:7.5 HIGHVector:CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

By selecting these links, you will be leaving this site. These are references gathered from the official CVE record and are not endorsed by Volerion.

URLSource(s)Tag(s)
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/731a5b6fb4c1705f9405d9029dd64ea81e336207 kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/91b96dc9cc250cd16751f53de525cf3442ca0962 kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a1bf79365794783b19f5b09e8a23f7ee311e8931 kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f7d53dd3f267e46a784f219a75072f2f400d42b9 kernel.org

Weakness Enumeration

No weakness enumeration is available for this CVE.

Affected Products

No affected product data is available for this CVE.

Change History

2 change records found show changes

QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2026-80924
NVD Published Date:
Sep 9, 2026
NVD Last Modified:
Sep 10, 2026
Source:
kernel.org