Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 6, 2026
CVE-2026-98208
CVE-2026-98208
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mmc: sdio_uart: fix xmit_fifo leak when the port table is full
sdio_uart_add_port() allocates the transmit fifo before claiming a slot in sdio_uart_table[]. When all UART_NR slots are taken, it returns -EBUSY with the fifo still allocated, but the probe error path only kfree()s the port, leaking the transmit fifo.
Free the fifo in the failure path of sdio_uart_add_port() itself so the function retains nothing on error.
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8- git.kernel.org/stable/c/53823e25793a97d07e6e98e0904bbf74cac8bc76nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/5e142adbbdc54afbd01fad476c91cded41d22594nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/72f4c2b7a48423c708f2c348585419a1b71ab04cnvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/8a2c1bf209ba04cbd14153a771724bd5aa522fcdnvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/9e992d59138fcfaa4bad7cc0750265b0a8bca100nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/ac866db277a4c73e84b4263773652e3aba326249nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/b97b5b66c93cb4aaf6358727a73fff880a774dfdnvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/fd8223c53ad9553b2a349d2a40e19bbc6e60fc48nvd
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