CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-46288
8.4 HIGH
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-06-08
- Last modified
- 2026-07-23
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 8.4 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
of: unittest: fix use-after-free in of_unittest_changeset()
The variable 'parent' is assigned the value of 'nchangeset' earlier in the
function, meaning both point to the same struct device_node. The call to
of_node_put(nchangeset) can decrement the reference count to zero and
free the node if there are no other holders. After that, the code still
uses 'parent' to check for the presence of a property and to read a
string property, leading to a use-after-free.
Fix this by moving the of_node_put() call after the last access to
'parent', avoiding the UAF.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.12 < 6.12.86)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.27)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 7.0.4)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/37318d1a27c9cc5a70d3cd7e49e30ec86f2b8ca1 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6fdad20b7975bdc32e85b45f8f7c640f6687b81f Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7f0f0926f3010b10cff5e93446258f971e42f2fd Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/faecdd423c27f0d6090156a435ba9dbbac0eaddb Patch