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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Feb 26, 2025· Updated Oct 1, 2025

usb: usbip: fix a refcount leak in stub_probe()

CVE-2022-49389

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

usb: usbip: fix a refcount leak in stub_probe()

usb_get_dev() is called in stub_device_alloc(). When stub_probe() fails after that, usb_put_dev() needs to be called to release the reference.

Fix this by moving usb_put_dev() to sdev_free error path handling.

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