USB: ulpi: fix memory leak on registration failure
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: USB: ulpi: fix memory leak on registration failure The allocated device name is never freed on early ULPI device registration failures. Fix this by initialising the device structure earlier and releasing the initial reference whenever registration fails.
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: USB: ulpi: fix memory leak on registration failure The allocated device name is never freed on early ULPI device registration failures. Fix this by initialising the device structure earlier and releasing the initial reference whenever registration fails.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1967a7f0cd5c08eb479196daa5aaa4b7b7a7bd04
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5c098f20f15db7f9126129686d1c6da2ce8bbeb0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/624c57147df1977e0d3da53f1da7117861b9cf19
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/691e61e5d4cfc5a1b061e937f8cbf2126bfc19a0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/88187a43135c79d0e43573b4d8f880bbb919eceb
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8af6812795869a66e9b26044f455b13deecdb69c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d5b32f36c50894ac2df8fa184e6f35f3a6665ecd
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e5493c9a98ffe083acf13ac064828ae598ba3c16
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/64xxx/CVE-2026-64332.json
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-64332