CVE-2026-98855 (GCVE-0-2026-98855)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-10-18 15:51
Modified
2026-10-21 12:57
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: of/overlay: put property on deadprops only after changeset add succeeds add_changeset_property() links a new property of a not-yet-live target node into the node's deadprops list before handing it to of_changeset_add_property(). If that fails, the error path frees the property but leaves the freed pointer linked in deadprops, and of_node_release() frees it a second time when the aborted overlay's node is released. Record the changeset entry first and link the property into deadprops only on success. of_changeset_add_property() never looks at the node's property lists, so the order of the two steps is otherwise immaterial, and the error path frees a property that nothing references.
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Linux Linux Version: f96278810150fc39085d1872e5b39ea06366d03e
Version: f96278810150fc39085d1872e5b39ea06366d03e
Version: f96278810150fc39085d1872e5b39ea06366d03e
Version: f96278810150fc39085d1872e5b39ea06366d03e
Version: f96278810150fc39085d1872e5b39ea06366d03e
Version: b52ca352489be8beb7de3a8181509a0deaf72e21
Version: 4.19.49   ≤
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