CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-43328
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2026-05-08
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-415
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cpufreq: governor: fix double free in cpufreq_dbs_governor_init() error path
When kobject_init_and_add() fails, cpufreq_dbs_governor_init() calls
kobject_put(&dbs_data->attr_set.kobj).
The kobject release callback cpufreq_dbs_data_release() calls
gov->exit(dbs_data) and kfree(dbs_data), but the current error path
then calls gov->exit(dbs_data) and kfree(dbs_data) again, causing a
double free.
Keep the direct kfree(dbs_data) for the gov->init() failure path, but
after kobject_init_and_add() has been called, let kobject_put() handle
the cleanup through cpufreq_dbs_data_release().
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.2 < 5.10.253)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 6.1.168)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.134)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.81)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.22)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 6.19.12)
• linux linux kernel 5.1.6
• linux linux kernel 7.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-415 Double Free weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/019ea28629720c220daedf38107c8787f330dc05 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3bf9d023d2329a0e5379f2fd09d06ef09729cd9d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/427d048e4f6acbfa01b5a8062449fe0ee8987c0d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4b9118e93d2499bb2808ef3742fa0ce06f4f8117 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/56bc91ee78babe9578585a2bc137abc4b3115ff3 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6dcf9d0064ce2f3e3dfe5755f98b93abe6a98e1e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d2703b4f8fb7cc6f0dfdb2dc2359cc46189e7357 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/da39ee627fd82b52068d4d5f115749a8b7d271f9 Patch