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CVE-2026-98855

of/overlay: put property on deadprops only after changeset add succeeds

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 4.20, 6.6.160, 6.12.113, 6.18.56, 7.2.10
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: of/overlay: put property on deadprops only after changeset add succeeds add_changeset_property() links a new property of a not-yet-live target node into the node's deadprops list before handing it to of_changeset_add_property(). If that fails, the error path frees the property but leaves the freed pointer linked in deadprops, and of_node_release() frees it a second time when the aborted overlay's node is released. Record the changeset entry first and link the property into deadprops only on success. of_changeset_add_property() never looks at the node's property lists, so the order of the two steps is otherwise immaterial, and the error path frees a property that nothing references.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • Linux Linux

    From 4.19.49 · fixed in 4.20

  • Linux Linux

    5.0

  • KernelLinux

    From 5.0.0 · fixed in 6.6.160; From 6.7.0 · fixed in 6.12.113; From 6.13.0 · fixed in 6.18.56; From 6.19.0 · fixed in 7.2.10

References 8

git.kernel.org