Bug 2517090 (CVE-2026-74456) - CVE-2026-74456 kernel: can: peak_usb: peak_usb_start(): fix double free of transfer buffer on URB submit error
Summary: CVE-2026-74456 kernel: can: peak_usb: peak_usb_start(): fix double free of tr...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-74456
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2026-08-15 12:49 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-08-17 12:21 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-15 12:49:55 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

can: peak_usb: peak_usb_start(): fix double free of transfer buffer on URB submit error

In peak_usb_start(), each RX URB transfer buffer is allocated with kmalloc()
and the URB is flagged URB_FREE_BUFFER so that the final usb_free_urb() also
frees the transfer buffer.

If usb_submit_urb() fails, the error path frees the buffer explicitly with
kfree(buf) and then calls usb_free_urb(urb). Because URB_FREE_BUFFER is set,
usb_free_urb() -> urb_destroy() frees the same buffer a second time, a double
free of the transfer buffer.

  BUG: KASAN: double-free in usb_free_urb.part.0+0x91/0xb0
  Free of addr ffff8881069ccb80 by task trigger.sh/285

  Call Trace:
   kfree+0x113/0x3c0
   usb_free_urb.part.0+0x91/0xb0

Drop the redundant kfree(buf); usb_free_urb() already releases the transfer
buffer. This mirrors commit 03819abbeb11 ("net: usb: lan78xx: Fix double free
issue with interrupt buffer allocation").


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