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FKIE_CVE-2026-45996

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-05-27 14:17 - Updated: 2026-05-27 14:48

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Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: spi: imx: fix use-after-free on unbind The SPI subsystem frees the controller and any subsystem allocated driver data as part of deregistration (unless the allocation is device managed). Take another reference before deregistering the controller so that the driver data is not freed until the driver is done with it.

References

	URL	Tags
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/132e47030b0b5e398e0da6c59df5a5dae9b52cff
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1c78c2002380a1fe31bfb01a3d5f29809e55a096
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/385a330083f8dd47c15b02e9a83aef9234a37003
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aa9025a498036b6012769f7af36d421385386c17
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f99165ef067723221472ce1aff632bc74f562643

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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      "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nspi: imx: fix use-after-free on unbind\n\nThe SPI subsystem frees the controller and any subsystem allocated\ndriver data as part of deregistration (unless the allocation is device\nmanaged).\n\nTake another reference before deregistering the controller so that the\ndriver data is not freed until the driver is done with it."
    }
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  "id": "CVE-2026-45996",
  "lastModified": "2026-05-27T14:48:03.013",
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  "published": "2026-05-27T14:17:17.180",
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CVE-2026-45996 (GCVE-0-2026-45996)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-27 12:55 – Updated: 2026-05-27 12:55

Title

spi: imx: fix use-after-free on unbind

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux

References

5 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f99165ef067723221…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/385a330083f8dd47c…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/132e47030b0b5e398…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aa9025a498036b601…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1c78c2002380a1fe3…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 307c897db762d1e0feee9477276b08f6deca4a5b , < f99165ef067723221472ce1aff632bc74f562643 (git) Affected: 307c897db762d1e0feee9477276b08f6deca4a5b , < 385a330083f8dd47c15b02e9a83aef9234a37003 (git) Affected: 307c897db762d1e0feee9477276b08f6deca4a5b , < 132e47030b0b5e398e0da6c59df5a5dae9b52cff (git) Affected: 307c897db762d1e0feee9477276b08f6deca4a5b , < aa9025a498036b6012769f7af36d421385386c17 (git) Affected: 307c897db762d1e0feee9477276b08f6deca4a5b , < 1c78c2002380a1fe31bfb01a3d5f29809e55a096 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 5.19 Unaffected: 0 , < 5.19 (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.140 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.86 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.27 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.0.4 , ≤ 7.0.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.1-rc1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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CVE-2026-45996 (GCVE-0-2026-45996)

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