CVE-2026-72058

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The\nsecond one is stored in port->netdev and later used by the remove path\nfor unregister_hdlc_device() and free_netdev().\n\nThis means that the registered netdev is not the same object that is\nunregistered and freed on remove. It also leaks the first allocation if\nthe second alloc_hdlcdev() call fails, and the first allocation is not\nchecked before ndev is used.\n\nOlder code allocated the HDLC netdev only once and stored the same object\nin both the local variable and port->netdev. The buggy conversion split\nthis into two alloc_hdlcdev() calls. A later rename changed the local\nvariable name to ndev, but the underlying mismatch remained.\n\nFix this by allocating the HDLC netdev only once and assigning the same\nobject to port->netdev."}], "affected": [{"product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": ["drivers/net/wan/ixp4xx_hss.c"], "versions": [{"version": "99ebe65eb9c0ada015931d239d9f2d1dc8897fee", "lessThan": "77d925b948ee594a79afe66f85bb94b67940140b", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}, {"version": "99ebe65eb9c0ada015931d239d9f2d1dc8897fee", "lessThan": "8f4c3c384092becbf4835a3f8ed8a3df1f544578", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}, {"version": "99ebe65eb9c0ada015931d239d9f2d1dc8897fee", "lessThan": "fd0b939ebd1eee29945a539c5ed65c35dddac8d6", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}, {"version": "99ebe65eb9c0ada015931d239d9f2d1dc8897fee", "lessThan": "ffba16e6f55948d94b7f16aa113d587c1c4c0643", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}, {"version": "99ebe65eb9c0ada015931d239d9f2d1dc8897fee", "lessThan": "3f85fcd520aa703824b1958f35169925ddae2558", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}, {"version": "99ebe65eb9c0ada015931d239d9f2d1dc8897fee", "lessThan": "91850f582783098415a334f8bd0a84c87ff15a8c", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}, {"version": "99ebe65eb9c0ada015931d239d9f2d1dc8897fee", "lessThan": "db818b0e8af7bac16860116a19c341a63d6677b4", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}]}, {"product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "affected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": ["drivers/net/wan/ixp4xx_hss.c"], "versions": [{"version": "5.14", "status": "affected"}, {"version": "0", "lessThan": "5.14", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver"}, {"version": "5.15.217", "lessThanOrEqual": "5.15.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver"}, {"version": "6.1.178", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.1.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver"}, {"version": "6.6.145", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.6.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver"}, {"version": "6.12.97", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.12.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver"}, {"version": "6.18.40", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.18.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver"}, {"version": "7.1.5", "lessThanOrEqual": "7.1.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver"}, {"version": "7.2", "lessThanOrEqual": "*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix"}]}], "cpeApplicability": [{"nodes": [{"operator": "OR", "negate": false, "cpeMatch": [{"vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "5.14", "versionEndExcluding": "5.15.217"}, {"vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "5.14", "versionEndExcluding": "6.1.178"}, {"vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "5.14", "versionEndExcluding": "6.6.145"}, {"vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "5.14", "versionEndExcluding": "6.12.97"}, {"vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "5.14", "versionEndExcluding": "6.18.40"}, {"vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "5.14", "versionEndExcluding": "7.1.5"}, {"vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "5.14", "versionEndExcluding": "7.2"}]}]}], "references": [{"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/77d925b948ee594a79afe66f85bb94b67940140b"}, {"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8f4c3c384092becbf4835a3f8ed8a3df1f544578"}, {"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fd0b939ebd1eee29945a539c5ed65c35dddac8d6"}, {"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ffba16e6f55948d94b7f16aa113d587c1c4c0643"}, {"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3f85fcd520aa703824b1958f35169925ddae2558"}, {"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/91850f582783098415a334f8bd0a84c87ff15a8c"}, {"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/db818b0e8af7bac16860116a19c341a63d6677b4"}], "title": "net: ixp4xx_hss: fix duplicate HDLC netdev allocation", "x_generator": {"engine": "bippy-1.2.0"}}}}

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