CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-72485
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-08-15
- Last modified
- 2026-10-03
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
coresight: platform: defer connection counter increment until alloc succeeds
coresight_add_out_conn() increments nr_outconns before calling
devm_krealloc_array() and again before devm_kmalloc(). If either
allocation fails, the counter is already bumped while the corresponding
array entry is NULL or uninitialized garbage.
coresight_add_in_conn() has the same problem with nr_inconns and
devm_krealloc_array().
In both cases the probe returns -ENOMEM, which causes
coresight_get_platform_data() to call coresight_release_platform_data()
for cleanup. That function iterates up to nr_outconns (or nr_inconns)
entries and dereferences each pointer unconditionally, hitting the NULL
or garbage entry and panicking instead of failing gracefully.
Fix by moving the counter increments to after all allocations succeed,
so the struct is always consistent on any error path.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/09c44549820df67048be3ba19c723bac72ebb98e git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1563ae33dc4f5ebac96b93af2ef72e72aaaa31ae git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8ca9adc805884d3bb5038082462577f86c2c4a10 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aed6915c2f304ed34281856c53e374483c71b68b git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dd3c9e1c9858c797ba78f4ca6c0fc663eeac6d72 git.kernel.org