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CVE-2026-46162 (GCVE-0-2026-46162)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-28 09:36 – Updated: 2026-06-14 17:59
VLAI
Title
ice: fix double free in ice_sf_eth_activate() error path
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ice: fix double free in ice_sf_eth_activate() error path When auxiliary_device_add() fails, ice_sf_eth_activate() jumps to aux_dev_uninit and calls auxiliary_device_uninit(&sf_dev->adev). The device release callback ice_sf_dev_release() frees sf_dev, but the current error path falls through to sf_dev_free and calls kfree(sf_dev) again, causing a double free. Keep kfree(sf_dev) for the auxiliary_device_init() failure path, but avoid falling through to sf_dev_free after auxiliary_device_uninit().
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 13acc5c4cdbeccf3274cbbd4de2e2d316b8c4ce6 , < 2ca30340b5028ddc3f17086a538feeff06167b1b (git)
Affected: 13acc5c4cdbeccf3274cbbd4de2e2d316b8c4ce6 , < 121d1f253aed515cd85748f68c664a6cb756e8ad (git)
Affected: 13acc5c4cdbeccf3274cbbd4de2e2d316b8c4ce6 , < d0c6a4816609f145ffcc74e64baa214c571c17c6 (git)
Affected: 13acc5c4cdbeccf3274cbbd4de2e2d316b8c4ce6 , < 9aab1c3d7299285e2569cbc0ed5892d631a241b2 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.12
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.12 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.88 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.30 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0.7 , ≤ 7.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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