Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Sep 25, 2026· Updated Oct 19, 2026
CVE-2026-97540
CVE-2026-97540
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: usb: pegasus: don't rely on id table pointer arithmetic
The current code is broken when dynamic ID is involved; in such cases usb_device_id parameter of probe lives on the heap and the pointer arithmetic will get an index that is wildly out of bound. Instead of keeping a side table for additional information, use driver_info field of the usb_device_id.
The dynamic ID parsing code needs to be updated for this; convert it to just write to the reserved entry for dynamic ID and remove the weird loop.
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Affected products
3- osv-coords2 versions
>= 2.6.16, < 6.1.189+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: >= 2.6.16, < 6.1.189
- (no CPE)range: < 7.2.9-1.1
Patches
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References
6- git.kernel.org/stable/c/05d47f540d85c8f6697ec5cfc1aa7b4f96a5b31bnvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/61b84e964a829d534f24eab4cbd4035d22b52601nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/7654812b65047349ea4c111eed42c4315a00e462nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/7c940a1100cb0aa18a54dc48d736c0525c0f400cnvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/9425a13960ef38bac237608f25c9ee64ff113086nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/ce8101c331956bbd3e20681331dfd22eb7c1c1eanvd
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