CVE-2025-71192 (GCVE-0-2025-71192)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-02-04 16:00 – Updated: 2026-02-09 08:36
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Title
ALSA: ac97: fix a double free in snd_ac97_controller_register()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: ac97: fix a double free in snd_ac97_controller_register() If ac97_add_adapter() fails, put_device() is the correct way to drop the device reference. kfree() is not required. Add kfree() if idr_alloc() fails and in ac97_adapter_release() to do the cleanup. Found by code review.
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Linux Linux Affected: 74426fbff66eea8e8d1f42c8238c268d1e63a832 , < c80f9b3349a99a9d5b295f5bbc23f544c5995ad7 (git)
Affected: 74426fbff66eea8e8d1f42c8238c268d1e63a832 , < 21f8bc5179bed91c3f946adb5e55d717b891960c (git)
Affected: 74426fbff66eea8e8d1f42c8238c268d1e63a832 , < fcc04c92cbb5497ce67c58dd2f0001bb87f40396 (git)
Affected: 74426fbff66eea8e8d1f42c8238c268d1e63a832 , < cb73d37ac18bc1716690ff5255a0ef1952827e9e (git)
Affected: 74426fbff66eea8e8d1f42c8238c268d1e63a832 , < 830988b6cf197e6dcffdfe2008c5738e6c6c3c0f (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 4.15
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.15 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.161 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.121 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.66 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.6 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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