CVE-2026-43328 (GCVE-0-2026-43328)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-08 13:31 – Updated: 2026-05-23 16:06
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Title
cpufreq: governor: fix double free in cpufreq_dbs_governor_init() error path
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cpufreq: governor: fix double free in cpufreq_dbs_governor_init() error path When kobject_init_and_add() fails, cpufreq_dbs_governor_init() calls kobject_put(&dbs_data->attr_set.kobj). The kobject release callback cpufreq_dbs_data_release() calls gov->exit(dbs_data) and kfree(dbs_data), but the current error path then calls gov->exit(dbs_data) and kfree(dbs_data) again, causing a double free. Keep the direct kfree(dbs_data) for the gov->init() failure path, but after kobject_init_and_add() has been called, let kobject_put() handle the cleanup through cpufreq_dbs_data_release().
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Linux Linux Affected: 4ebe36c94aed95de71a8ce6a6762226d31c938ee , < 56bc91ee78babe9578585a2bc137abc4b3115ff3 (git)
Affected: 4ebe36c94aed95de71a8ce6a6762226d31c938ee , < 019ea28629720c220daedf38107c8787f330dc05 (git)
Affected: 4ebe36c94aed95de71a8ce6a6762226d31c938ee , < da39ee627fd82b52068d4d5f115749a8b7d271f9 (git)
Affected: 4ebe36c94aed95de71a8ce6a6762226d31c938ee , < 427d048e4f6acbfa01b5a8062449fe0ee8987c0d (git)
Affected: 4ebe36c94aed95de71a8ce6a6762226d31c938ee , < d2703b4f8fb7cc6f0dfdb2dc2359cc46189e7357 (git)
Affected: 4ebe36c94aed95de71a8ce6a6762226d31c938ee , < 3bf9d023d2329a0e5379f2fd09d06ef09729cd9d (git)
Affected: 4ebe36c94aed95de71a8ce6a6762226d31c938ee , < 6dcf9d0064ce2f3e3dfe5755f98b93abe6a98e1e (git)
Affected: e977b1477a6725868302957e6b5c330220391797 (git)
Affected: 5.1.6 , < 5.2 (semver)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.2
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.2 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.253 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.168 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.134 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.81 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.22 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19.12 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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