CVE-2026-98697 (GCVE-0-2026-98697)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-10-18 15:46
Modified
2026-10-30 12:38
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: USB: serial: fix dynamic id driver deregistration race Only free the dynamic ids after having deregistered the driver and removed the "new_id" attribute to avoid leaking any id added by a racing write to the attribute.
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Linux Linux Version: 93bacefc4cc0b53e1cb6a336d43847154fdf6886
Version: 93bacefc4cc0b53e1cb6a336d43847154fdf6886
Version: 93bacefc4cc0b53e1cb6a336d43847154fdf6886
Version: 93bacefc4cc0b53e1cb6a336d43847154fdf6886
Version: 93bacefc4cc0b53e1cb6a336d43847154fdf6886
Version: 93bacefc4cc0b53e1cb6a336d43847154fdf6886
Version: 93bacefc4cc0b53e1cb6a336d43847154fdf6886
Version: 93bacefc4cc0b53e1cb6a336d43847154fdf6886
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