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CVE-2026-72058 Detail

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: ixp4xx_hss: fix duplicate HDLC netdev allocation ixp4xx_hss_probe() allocates two HDLC netdevs. The first one is stored in ndev, initialized, and registered with register_hdlc_device(). The second one is stored in port->netdev and later used by the remove path for unregister_hdlc_device() and free_netdev(). This means that the registered netdev is not the same object that is unregistered and freed on remove. It also leaks the first allocation if the second alloc_hdlcdev() call fails, and the first allocation is not checked before ndev is used. Older code allocated the HDLC netdev only once and stored the same object in both the local variable and port->netdev. The buggy conversion split this into two alloc_hdlcdev() calls. A later rename changed the local variable name to ndev, but the underlying mismatch remained. Fix this by allocating the HDLC netdev only once and assigning the same object to port->netdev.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3f85fcd520aa703824b1958f35169925ddae2558 kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8f4c3c384092becbf4835a3f8ed8a3df1f544578 kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/91850f582783098415a334f8bd0a84c87ff15a8c kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/db818b0e8af7bac16860116a19c341a63d6677b4 kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fd0b939ebd1eee29945a539c5ed65c35dddac8d6 kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ffba16e6f55948d94b7f16aa113d587c1c4c0643 kernel.org

Weakness Enumeration

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2026-72058
NVD Published Date:
08/15/2026
NVD Last Modified:
08/15/2026
Source:
kernel.org