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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-45961" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-05-27T12:18:17.637Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:41:07.442Z" 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-2026-45961" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-45961.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-45961" title: "gfs2: fix memory leaks in gfs2_fill_super error path" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ngfs2: fix memory leaks in gfs2_fill_super error path\n\nFix two memory leaks in the gfs2_fill_super() error handling path when\ntransitioning a filesystem to read-write mode fails.\n\nFirst leak: kthread objects (thread_struct, task_struct, etc.)\nWhen gfs2_freeze_lock_shared() fails after init_threads() succeeds, the\ncreated kernel threads (logd and quotad) are never destroyed. This\noccurs because the fail_per_node label doesn't call\ngfs2_destroy_threads().\n\nSecond leak: quota bitmap buffer (8192 bytes)\nWhen gfs2_make_fs_rw() fails after gfs2_quota_init() succeeds but\nbefore other operations complete, the allocated quota bitmap is never\nfreed.\n\nThe fix moves thread cleanup to the fail_per_node label to handle all\nerror paths uniformly. gfs2_destroy_threads() is safe to call\nunconditionally as it checks for NULL pointers. Quota cleanup is added\nin gfs2_make_fs_rw() to properly handle the withdrawal case where\nquota initialization succeeds but the filesystem is then withdrawn.\n\nThread leak backtrace (gfs2_freeze_lock_shared failure):\n unreferenced object 0xffff88801d7bca80 (size 4480):\n copy_process+0x3a1/0x4670 kernel/fork.c:2422\n kernel_clone+0xf3/0x6e0 kernel/fork.c:2779\n kthread_create_on_node+0x100/0x150 kernel/kthread.c:478\n init_threads+0xab/0x350 fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c:611\n gfs2_fill_super+0xe5c/0x1240 fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c:1265\n\nQuota leak backtrace (gfs2_make_fs_rw failure):\n unreferenced object 0xffff88812de7c000 (size 8192):\n gfs2_quota_init+0xe5/0x820 fs/gfs2/quota.c:1409\n gfs2_make_fs_rw+0x7a/0xe0 fs/gfs2/super.c:149\n gfs2_fill_super+0xfbb/0x1240 fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c:1275" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"b66f723bb552ad59c2acb5d45ea45c890f84498b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4db5e4c8f1103b21005ab9e7fe9a5d2554438b74"},{"version":"b66f723bb552ad59c2acb5d45ea45c890f84498b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d049ba2c1723110f82227eaf521427980811169b"},{"version":"b66f723bb552ad59c2acb5d45ea45c890f84498b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4456be93464a599eac0eb2afa63b5d662e1599d8"},{"version":"b66f723bb552ad59c2acb5d45ea45c890f84498b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e54229ecf49add8451d5f765a32c86ab4446e06c"},{"version":"b66f723bb552ad59c2acb5d45ea45c890f84498b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"da6f5bbc2e7902f578b503f2a4c3d8d09ca4b102"},{"version":"2f8623377f3e0cfaa80558631b8694d02a492b4c","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"c713ebf2fe3f469e4af4de60a3427689ffb7c5d7","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"c2191e507147b1a22e9170ebb2aaa0f2902fcbfa","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"9fc32dad3cdba18669c71893f3e6d96905b39b3f","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.10.173","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.11"},{"version":"5.15.99","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.16"},{"version":"6.1.16","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.2"},{"version":"6.2.3","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.3"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.3","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.3"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.114","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.57","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.19.*"},{"version":"7.0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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