CVE-2019-25162 (GCVE-0-2019-25162)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-02-26 17:20
Modified
2026-05-11 13:41
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: i2c: Fix a potential use after free Free the adap structure only after we are done using it. This patch just moves the put_device() down a bit to avoid the use after free. [wsa: added comment to the code, added Fixes tag]
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Linux Linux Version: 611e12ea0f121a31d9e9c4ce2a18a77abc2f28d6
Version: 611e12ea0f121a31d9e9c4ce2a18a77abc2f28d6
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