CVE-2026-46109 (GCVE-0-2026-46109)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-28 09:35 – Updated: 2026-05-28 09:35
VLAI
Title
usb: ulpi: fix memory leak on ulpi_register() error paths
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: ulpi: fix memory leak on ulpi_register() error paths Commit 01af542392b5 ("usb: ulpi: fix double free in ulpi_register_interface() error path") removed kfree(ulpi) from ulpi_register_interface() to fix a double-free when device_register() fails. But when ulpi_of_register() or ulpi_read_id() fail before device_register() is called, the ulpi allocation is leaked. Add kfree(ulpi) on both error paths to properly clean up the allocation.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: aaeae6533d77e6ed4def85baec01e2815ebbef61 , < b0c0d44adb55c66663886cb6e30ee92cbb0f5385 (git)
Affected: 8763f8317bb389aded32a32b08f6751cfff657d2 , < be2c1d825f54277472c87019e82013ac534ddc4c (git)
Affected: 38c28fe25611099230f0965c925499bfcf46a795 , < 2a71e01b2cf9b4329ff67102c1bea7448c2a2d2d (git)
Affected: 01af542392b5d41fd659d487015a71f627accce3 , < f30ccfc2985590b33a23a3d8bed7ca16c0af551b (git)
Affected: 01af542392b5d41fd659d487015a71f627accce3 , < 0b9fcab1b8608d429e5f239afb197de928d4de7d (git)
Affected: 2f70ba9dae13a190673cc3f9b4aad52179738f60 (git)
Affected: ee248e6e941e4f2e634df2bd43e5f1ef810ab6df (git)
Affected: 272a9b26c336a295e4e209157fed809706c1b1f7 (git)
Affected: a6e5461f076c2ef63159f18e5cdbd30b50f0bc15 (git)
Affected: 6.6.134 , < 6.6.140 (semver)
Affected: 6.12.81 , < 6.12.88 (semver)
Affected: 6.18.22 , < 6.18.30 (semver)
Affected: 5.10.253 , < 5.11 (semver)
Affected: 5.15.203 , < 5.16 (semver)
Affected: 6.1.168 , < 6.2 (semver)
Affected: 6.19.12 , < 6.20 (semver)
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Linux Linux Affected: 7.0
Unaffected: 0 , < 7.0 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.140 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.88 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.30 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0.7 , ≤ 7.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1-rc3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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