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    "id": "CVE-2026-43090",
    "sourceURL": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43090",
    "idYear": 2026,
    "status": "PUBLISHED",
    "publishedAt": "2026-05-06T07:40:23.286Z",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-11T22:17:32.208Z",
    "importedAt": "2026-10-24T01:58:08.712Z",
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      "source": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"
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      "title": "xfrm: fix refcount leak in xfrm_migrate_policy_find",
      "summary": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nxfrm: fix refcount leak in xfrm_migrate_policy_find\n\nsyzkaller reported a memory leak in xfrm_policy_alloc:\n\n  BUG: memory leak\n  unreferenced object 0xffff888114d79000 (size 1024):\n    comm \"syz.1.17\", pid 931\n    ...\n    xfrm_policy_alloc+0xb3/0x4b0 net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c:432\n\nThe root cause is a double call to xfrm_pol_hold_rcu() in\nxfrm_migrate_policy_find(). The lookup function already returns\na policy with held reference, making the second call redundant.\n\nRemove the redundant xfrm_pol_hold_rcu() call to fix the refcount\nimbalance and prevent the memory leak.\n\nFound by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.",
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