# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-45959"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-27T12:18:16.039Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T19:26:40.585Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-45959"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-45959.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-45959"
title: "crypto: ccp - Fix a crash due to incorrect cleanup usage of kfree"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncrypto: ccp - Fix a crash due to incorrect cleanup usage of kfree\n\nAnnotating a local pointer variable, which will be assigned with the\nkmalloc-family functions, with the `__cleanup(kfree)` attribute will\nmake the address of the local variable, rather than the address returned\nby kmalloc, passed to kfree directly and lead to a crash due to invalid\ndeallocation of stack address. According to other places in the repo,\nthe correct usage should be `__free(kfree)`. The code coincidentally\ncompiled because the parameter type `void *` of kfree is compatible with\nthe desired type `struct { ... } **`."
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