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CVE-2025-68249

most: usb: hdm_probe: Fix calling put_device() before device initialization PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: most: usb: hdm_probe: Fix calling put_device() before device initialization The early error path in hdm_probe() can jump to err_free_mdev before &mdev->dev has been initialized with device_initialize(). Calling put_device(&mdev->dev) there triggers a device core WARN and ends up invoking kref_put(&kobj->kref, kobject_release) on an uninitialized kobject. In this path the private struct was only kmalloc'ed and the intended release is effectively kfree(mdev) anyway, so free it directly instead of calling put_device() on an uninitialized device. This removes the WARNING and fixes the pre-initialization error path.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 97a6f772f36b7f52bcfa56a581bbd2470cffe23d before 3509c748e79435d09e730673c8c100b7f0ebc87c; affected 97a6f772f36b7f52bcfa56a581bbd2470cffe23d before ad2be44882716dc3589fbc5572cc13f88ead6b24; affected 97a6f772f36b7f52bcfa56a581bbd2470cffe23d before c400410fe0580dd6118ae8d60287ac9ce71a65fd; affected 97a6f772f36b7f52bcfa56a581bbd2470cffe23d before 6fb8fbc0aa542af5bf0fed94fa6b0edf18144f95; affected 97a6f772f36b7f52bcfa56a581bbd2470cffe23d before 7d851f746067b8ee5bac9c262f326ace0a6ea253; affected 97a6f772f36b7f52bcfa56a581bbd2470cffe23d before 4af0eedbdb4df7936bf43a28e31af232744d2620; affected 97a6f772f36b7f52bcfa56a581bbd2470cffe23d before a8cc9e5fcb0e2eef21513a4fec888f5712cb8162
Linux / Linuxaffected 5.9; unaffected 0 before 5.9; unaffected 5.10.246 through 5.10.*; unaffected 5.15.196 through 5.15.*; unaffected 6.1.158 through 6.1.*; unaffected 6.6.115 through 6.6.*; unaffected 6.12.56 through 6.12.*; unaffected 6.17.6 through 6.17.*; unaffected 6.18 through *

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

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