Bug 2555047 (CVE-2026-98697)

Summary: CVE-2026-98697 kernel: USB: serial: fix dynamic id driver deregistration race
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: akhatavk, aos-team-art-private, asdas, dpaolell, jdelft, jupierce, lgarciaa, mbiarnes, ppalepu, ppostler, prdhamdh, rhel-process-autobot, sghai, sidsharm, suppawar, vlaad, watson-tool-maintainers
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A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's USB serial subsystem. A race condition during USB serial driver deregistration can result in a kernel memory leak. A local user with permissions to modify driver attributes can trigger this issue by writing to the dynamic identifier interface while the driver is being unregistered, leaving newly allocated identifiers unfreed.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-18 15:51:28 UTC
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.