CVE-2026-43056 (GCVE-0-2026-43056)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-01 14:15 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:25
VLAI
Title
net: mana: fix use-after-free in add_adev() error path
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: mana: fix use-after-free in add_adev() error path If auxiliary_device_add() fails, add_adev() jumps to add_fail and calls auxiliary_device_uninit(adev). The auxiliary device has its release callback set to adev_release(), which frees the containing struct mana_adev. Since adev is embedded in struct mana_adev, the subsequent fall-through to init_fail and access to adev->id may result in a use-after-free. Fix this by saving the allocated auxiliary device id in a local variable before calling auxiliary_device_add(), and use that saved id in the cleanup path after auxiliary_device_uninit().
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: a69839d4327d053b18d8e1b0e7ddeee78db78f4f , < d88541ffd56d62a61e77209080001eddd4d69815 (git)
Affected: a69839d4327d053b18d8e1b0e7ddeee78db78f4f , < 43f5b19fd190fea20d052bc84741b28031d5baa9 (git)
Affected: a69839d4327d053b18d8e1b0e7ddeee78db78f4f , < 5f4061f8225d18695e5afe9bbf1cb7bd673d7872 (git)
Affected: a69839d4327d053b18d8e1b0e7ddeee78db78f4f , < e5a75bf026c686b91a7dc6f9c5caf5016745d1fe (git)
Affected: a69839d4327d053b18d8e1b0e7ddeee78db78f4f , < c4ea7d8907cf72b259bf70bd8c2e791e1c4ff70f (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.2
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.2 (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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