CVE-2025-68249 (GCVE-0-2025-68249)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-16 14:32 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:49
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
most: usb: hdm_probe: Fix calling put_device() before device initialization
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
References
7 references
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
97a6f772f36b7f52bcfa56a581bbd2470cffe23d , < 3509c748e79435d09e730673c8c100b7f0ebc87c
(git)
Affected: 97a6f772f36b7f52bcfa56a581bbd2470cffe23d , < ad2be44882716dc3589fbc5572cc13f88ead6b24 (git) Affected: 97a6f772f36b7f52bcfa56a581bbd2470cffe23d , < c400410fe0580dd6118ae8d60287ac9ce71a65fd (git) Affected: 97a6f772f36b7f52bcfa56a581bbd2470cffe23d , < 6fb8fbc0aa542af5bf0fed94fa6b0edf18144f95 (git) Affected: 97a6f772f36b7f52bcfa56a581bbd2470cffe23d , < 7d851f746067b8ee5bac9c262f326ace0a6ea253 (git) Affected: 97a6f772f36b7f52bcfa56a581bbd2470cffe23d , < 4af0eedbdb4df7936bf43a28e31af232744d2620 (git) Affected: 97a6f772f36b7f52bcfa56a581bbd2470cffe23d , < a8cc9e5fcb0e2eef21513a4fec888f5712cb8162 (git) |
guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
5.9
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.9 (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.246 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.196 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.158 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.115 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.56 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.17.6 , ≤ 6.17.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.18 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
guessed |
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