firmware_loader: fix device reference leak in firmware_upload_register() (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-64376
MEDIUM 5.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.12 % · percentile 2 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: firmware_loader: fix device reference leak in firmware_upload_register() firmware_upload_register() -> fw_create_instance() -> device_initialize() After fw_create_instance() succeeds, the lifetime of the embedded struct device is expected to be managed through the device core reference counting, since fw_create_instance() has already called device_initialize(). In firmware_upload_register(), if alloc_lookup_fw_priv() fails after fw_create_instance() succeeds, the code reaches free_fw_sysfs and frees fw_sysfs directly instead of releasing the device reference with put_device(). This may leave the reference count of the embedded struct device unbalanced, resulting in a refcount leak. The issue was identified by a static analysis tool I developed and confirmed by manual review. Fix this by using put_device(fw_dev) in the failure path and letting fw_dev_release() handle the final cleanup, instead of freeing the instance directly from the error path.

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 97730bbb242cde22b7140acd202ffd88823886c9 < 517676ec7dfca064e08f94007a4abd21969de0a0 ; affected 97730bbb242cde22b7140acd202ffd88823886c9 < 46d403da376a8b7c1187193294953816e1a8d7fe ; affected 97730bbb242cde22b7140acd202ffd88823886c9 < 2619b47a0c8114eef980a56ade7e3ef4b58eb384 ; affected 97730bbb242cde22b7140acd202ffd88823886c9 < 92f41769e5fd16bcd9ba97500d0517332e0a5b45 ; affected 97730bbb242cde22b7140acd202ffd88823886c9 < 15432f19562fdb9199cce6d9fc24db12c71ed574 ; affected 97730bbb242cde22b7140acd202ffd88823886c9 < 896df22ee57648b0c505bd76ddbc6b2341834696
Linux · Linuxaffected 5.19 ; unaffected 0 < 5.19 ; unaffected 6.1.178 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.145 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.12.96 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.18.39 ≤ 6.18.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD