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CVE-2026-31759

usb: ulpi: fix double free in ulpi_register_interface() error path PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: ulpi: fix double free in ulpi_register_interface() error path When device_register() fails, ulpi_register() calls put_device() on ulpi->dev. The device release callback ulpi_dev_release() drops the OF node reference and frees ulpi, but the current error path in ulpi_register_interface() then calls kfree(ulpi) again, causing a double free. Let put_device() handle the cleanup through ulpi_dev_release() and avoid freeing ulpi again in ulpi_register_interface().

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 289fcff4bcdb1dcc0ce8788b7ea0f58a9e4a495f before 2f70ba9dae13a190673cc3f9b4aad52179738f60; affected 289fcff4bcdb1dcc0ce8788b7ea0f58a9e4a495f before ee248e6e941e4f2e634df2bd43e5f1ef810ab6df; affected 289fcff4bcdb1dcc0ce8788b7ea0f58a9e4a495f before 272a9b26c336a295e4e209157fed809706c1b1f7; affected 289fcff4bcdb1dcc0ce8788b7ea0f58a9e4a495f before aaeae6533d77e6ed4def85baec01e2815ebbef61; affected 289fcff4bcdb1dcc0ce8788b7ea0f58a9e4a495f before 8763f8317bb389aded32a32b08f6751cfff657d2; affected 289fcff4bcdb1dcc0ce8788b7ea0f58a9e4a495f before 38c28fe25611099230f0965c925499bfcf46a795; affected 289fcff4bcdb1dcc0ce8788b7ea0f58a9e4a495f before a6e5461f076c2ef63159f18e5cdbd30b50f0bc15; affected 289fcff4bcdb1dcc0ce8788b7ea0f58a9e4a495f before 01af542392b5d41fd659d487015a71f627accce3
Linux / Linuxaffected 4.2; unaffected 0 before 4.2; unaffected 5.10.253 through 5.10.*; unaffected 5.15.203 through 5.15.*; unaffected 6.1.168 through 6.1.*; unaffected 6.6.134 through 6.6.*; unaffected 6.12.81 through 6.12.*; unaffected 6.18.22 through 6.18.*; unaffected 6.19.12 through 6.19.*; unaffected 7.0 through *

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

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