CVE-2026-43432

Summary

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

usb: xhci: Fix memory leak in xhci_disable_slot()

xhci_alloc_command() allocates a command structure and, when the second argument is true, also allocates a completion structure. Currently, the error handling path in xhci_disable_slot() only frees the command structure using kfree(), causing the completion structure to leak.

Use xhci_free_command() instead of kfree(). xhci_free_command() correctly frees both the command structure and the associated completion structure. Since the command structure is allocated with zero-initialization, command->in_ctx is NULL and will not be erroneously freed by xhci_free_command().

This bug was found using an experimental static analysis tool we are developing. The tool is based on the LLVM framework and is specifically designed to detect memory management issues. It is currently under active development and not yet publicly available, but we plan to open-source it after our research is published.

The bug was originally detected on v6.13-rc1 using our static analysis tool, and we have verified that the issue persists in the latest mainline kernel.

We performed build testing on x86_64 with allyesconfig using GCC=11.4.0. Since triggering these error paths in xhci_disable_slot() requires specific hardware conditions or abnormal state, we were unable to construct a test case to reliably trigger these specific error paths at runtime.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinuxfee8be5bde562d4f5f9a100ca80c6d7072ed34c8 < 1e800e26d54ccf2ddf2ea6d6cbe021c804d8aa62affected
LinuxLinux02d5a2a48bb44e7404b794df87e57588b2fd604e < 6288baf0c8c4dcfbf206773aede9c1f2269cec28affected
LinuxLinux7faac1953ed1f658f719cdf7bb7303fa5eef822c < 46aea90763832cd6e9b0c2e1c00e6a9512156d4baffected
LinuxLinux7faac1953ed1f658f719cdf7bb7303fa5eef822c < 2e2baa8fb5aa4d080cbfeb84c51eff797529f413affected
LinuxLinux7faac1953ed1f658f719cdf7bb7303fa5eef822c < 807e4fb5140c73eb5dba1e399a990db5c1f3cdf8affected
LinuxLinux7faac1953ed1f658f719cdf7bb7303fa5eef822c < c65f1b840ab8ce72ba68f1b63bab7960f8fdfa89affected
LinuxLinux7faac1953ed1f658f719cdf7bb7303fa5eef822c < 078b446efc0f5e496c31bccb72b98af979963a83affected
LinuxLinux7faac1953ed1f658f719cdf7bb7303fa5eef822c < c1c8550e70401159184130a1afc6261db01fc0ceaffected
LinuxLinuxcc7c2818c71ebace207df40cc586c8c74e3d1a59affected
LinuxLinuxec0cddcc2454ab08193beb473978f8f8889b7e24affected
LinuxLinux5.10.85 < 5.10.253affected
LinuxLinux5.15.8 < 5.15.203affected
LinuxLinux4.19.221 < 4.20affected
LinuxLinux5.4.165 < 5.5affected
LinuxLinux5.16affected
LinuxLinux0 < 5.16unaffected
LinuxLinux5.10.253 <= 5.10.*unaffected
LinuxLinux5.15.203 <= 5.15.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.1.167 <= 6.1.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.6.130 <= 6.6.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.12.78 <= 6.12.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.18.19 <= 6.18.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.19.9 <= 6.19.*unaffected
LinuxLinux7.0 <= *unaffected

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