CVE-2026-89992 (GCVE-0-2026-89992)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-09-16 10:33
Modified
2026-10-19 08:56
Severity ?
8.4 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cpuidle: dt_idle_genpd: kfree() the original name allocation dt_idle_pd_alloc() kasprintf()s the full node path, then points pd->name at kbasename() of that string. dt_idle_pd_free() kfree()s pd->name, which is no longer the start of the allocation. Copy the basename instead.
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Linux Linux Version: 9d976d6721dfb525b81ce981e1363c70c0975aab
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Version: 9d976d6721dfb525b81ce981e1363c70c0975aab
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Version: 9d976d6721dfb525b81ce981e1363c70c0975aab
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