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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Feb 26, 2024· Updated May 4, 2025

i2c: Fix a potential use after free

CVE-2019-25162

Description

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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