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FKIE_CVE-2026-43343

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-05-08 14:16 - Updated: 2026-05-18 12:33

Severity

5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: gadget: f_subset: Fix unbalanced refcnt in geth_free geth_alloc() increments the reference count, but geth_free() fails to decrement it. This prevents the configuration of attributes via configfs after unlinking the function. Decrement the reference count in geth_free() to ensure proper cleanup.

References

URL	Tags
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/23e4851ce348a329d974e84e828155dda9f52122	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d436670b47415da042452618fb5d8e317ab095f	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3f5bfc550a40d7493b1cf09540ed6b412b3b82be	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/75776a055b656873319c3830fed471daef3ceb23	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a932b171554714b1bca313b853c7aa9f2930f9aa	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/caa27923aacd8a5869207842f2ab1657c6c0c7bc	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cc8ec610cd14c093a19371691a7ce1ee5421e829	Patch
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d7d702407b61e96286a15b6e715572f541a8d41c	Patch

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	*
linux	linux_kernel	7.0
linux	linux_kernel	7.0
linux	linux_kernel	7.0
linux	linux_kernel	7.0
linux	linux_kernel	7.0
linux	linux_kernel	7.0

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CVE-2026-43343 (GCVE-0-2026-43343)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-08 13:37 – Updated: 2026-05-11 22:22

Title

usb: gadget: f_subset: Fix unbalanced refcnt in geth_free

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux

References

8 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a932b171554714b1b…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d7d702407b61e9628…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3f5bfc550a40d7493…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/75776a055b6568733…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cc8ec610cd14c093a…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d436670b47415da0…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/23e4851ce348a329d…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/caa27923aacd8a586…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 02832e56f88a981474ee4c7c141f46fc1b4454f4 , < a932b171554714b1bca313b853c7aa9f2930f9aa (git) Affected: 02832e56f88a981474ee4c7c141f46fc1b4454f4 , < d7d702407b61e96286a15b6e715572f541a8d41c (git) Affected: 02832e56f88a981474ee4c7c141f46fc1b4454f4 , < 3f5bfc550a40d7493b1cf09540ed6b412b3b82be (git) Affected: 02832e56f88a981474ee4c7c141f46fc1b4454f4 , < 75776a055b656873319c3830fed471daef3ceb23 (git) Affected: 02832e56f88a981474ee4c7c141f46fc1b4454f4 , < cc8ec610cd14c093a19371691a7ce1ee5421e829 (git) Affected: 02832e56f88a981474ee4c7c141f46fc1b4454f4 , < 3d436670b47415da042452618fb5d8e317ab095f (git) Affected: 02832e56f88a981474ee4c7c141f46fc1b4454f4 , < 23e4851ce348a329d974e84e828155dda9f52122 (git) Affected: 02832e56f88a981474ee4c7c141f46fc1b4454f4 , < caa27923aacd8a5869207842f2ab1657c6c0c7bc (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 3.11 Unaffected: 0 , < 3.11 (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.253 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.203 , ≤ 5.15.* (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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CVE-2026-43343 (GCVE-0-2026-43343)

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