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LIN1025-15604 : Security Advisory - linux - CVE-2026-46283

Created: Jun 8, 2026    Updated: Jun 15, 2026
Found In Version: 10.25.33.2
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux LTS 25
Component/s: Kernel

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:  tpm: Use kfree_sensitive() to free auth session in tpm_dev_release()  tpm_dev_release() uses plain kfree() to free chip->auth, which contains sensitive cryptographic material including HMAC session keys, nonces, and passphrase data (struct tpm2_auth).  Every other code path that frees this structure uses kfree_sensitive() to zero the memory before releasing it: both tpm2_end_auth_session() and tpm_buf_check_hmac_response() do so. The tpm_dev_release() path is the only one that does not, leaving key material in freed slab memory until it is eventually overwritten.  Use kfree_sensitive() for consistency with the rest of the driver and to ensure session keys are scrubbed during device teardown.