CVE-2026-43421 (GCVE-0-2026-43421)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-08 14:21 – Updated: 2026-10-15 01:19
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
usb: gadget: f_ncm: Fix net_device lifecycle with device_move
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
usb: gadget: f_ncm: Fix net_device lifecycle with device_move
The network device outlived its parent gadget device during
disconnection, resulting in dangling sysfs links and null pointer
dereference problems.
A prior attempt to solve this by removing SET_NETDEV_DEV entirely [1]
was reverted due to power management ordering concerns and a NO-CARRIER
regression.
A subsequent attempt to defer net_device allocation to bind [2] broke
1:1 mapping between function instance and network device, making it
impossible for configfs to report the resolved interface name. This
results in a regression where the DHCP server fails on pmOS.
Use device_move to reparent the net_device between the gadget device and
/sys/devices/virtual/ across bind/unbind cycles. This preserves the
network interface across USB reconnection, allowing the DHCP server to
retain their binding.
Introduce gether_attach_gadget()/gether_detach_gadget() helpers and use
__free(detach_gadget) macro to undo attachment on bind failure. The
bind_count ensures device_move executes only on the first bind.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/f2a4f9847617a0929d62025748384092e5f35cce.camel@crapouillou.net/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-usb/795ea759-7eaf-4f78-81f4-01ffbf2d7961@ixit.cz/
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
Assigner
References
7 references
Impacted products
3 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
40d133d7f542616cf9538508a372306e626a16e9 , < 7c97366f5dac5255e60a317ffe3a5b18f3745547
(git)
Affected: 40d133d7f542616cf9538508a372306e626a16e9 , < 36c41e9724c9a7a7cda37f5a4e9d94f25c8031c4 (git) Affected: 40d133d7f542616cf9538508a372306e626a16e9 , < 93f116c3393a22acab96ad1bef12b2572eb80ca4 (git) Affected: 40d133d7f542616cf9538508a372306e626a16e9 , < e584cb58a2ea7ff4d3a4bc43d5ca512ed3ecb77d (git) Affected: 40d133d7f542616cf9538508a372306e626a16e9 , < 85acaba2f42b557499bab3608307f17bf13beb69 (git) Affected: 40d133d7f542616cf9538508a372306e626a16e9 , < ec35c1969650e7cb6c8a91020e568ed46e3551b0 (git) |
guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
3.11
Unaffected: 0 , < 3.11 (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.176 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.143 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.78 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.19 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.19.9 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
guessed | |
| Siemens | SIMATIC S7-1500 TM MFP - GNU/Linux subsystem |
Affected:
0 , < *
(custom)
|
guessed |
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Vulnerability timeline
Sightings and recorded dates, grouped by day · UTC
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.