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GHSA-3WQV-WJX5-M93Q

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-05-27 15:33 – Updated: 2026-05-27 15:33

Details

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.

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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

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.

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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GHSA-3WQV-WJX5-M93Q

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

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