Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 18, 2026

CVE-2026-98697

Description

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

USB: serial: fix dynamic id driver deregistration race

Only free the dynamic ids after having deregistered the driver and removed the "new_id" attribute to avoid leaking any id added by a racing write to the attribute.

Affected products

Linux/Kernelllm-create

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

git.kernel.org/stable/c/380f57cd58e26e0f3687451196ec446c473c52d9nvd
git.kernel.org/stable/c/4d6da6867b4ac6468d634a0dd3c35dfc0dc8af81nvd
git.kernel.org/stable/c/63594e8ffe097bc0b7639936f33799a7653dded2nvd
git.kernel.org/stable/c/ebd8fcaaacb66c15ae7e19d14619abe3762e0701nvd

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