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CVE-2026-90020 (GCVE-0-2026-90020)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-16 10:33 – Updated: 2026-09-16 10:33
VLAI
Title
USB: gadget: fix NULL pointer dereference in gadget_dev_ioctl()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: USB: gadget: fix NULL pointer dereference in gadget_dev_ioctl() gadget_dev_ioctl() reads dev->gadget before acquiring dev->lock, but dev->state is checked after acquiring the lock. Therefore a concurrent bind can change the device state between these operations, which can leave ioctl with a stale NULL gadget pointer and causing a NULL pointer dereference at gadget->ops->ioctl. Read dev->gadget while holding dev->lock so that the gadget pointer and device state are sampled consistently.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 8be30959be31b4205e3bdd2e2a6221f3a2ee7ea1 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < e8219accce2f6d3502ed71f5b5e854ecf27249a6 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 87cbf9410b12f5c2d659bb01e8ecf6517cb9f28c (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 162178ca83c3de986900385a0477eb539f8e1a7e (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < ebd916fdfefaacbc0e577f7037ec96b31a105e5f (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < c29a83c1ff3f06d5751f6d365b606c9f81ccc4cb (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 64ec019bf9a8b12f53b9f2777d65aadb730b5a84 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < dd0eed9e165b1a6292f49e622e3dd0b7d99b106d (git)
Affected: 0 , < 5.10.270 (semver)
Affected: 0 , < 5.15.221 (semver)
Affected: 0 , < 6.1.188 (semver)
Affected: 0 , < 6.6.157 (semver)
Affected: 0 , < 6.12.110 (semver)
Affected: 0 , < 6.18.51 (semver)
Affected: 0 , < 7.2.5 (semver)
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Linux Linux Unaffected: 5.10.270 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.221 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.188 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.157 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.110 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.51 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2.5 , ≤ 7.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.3-rc2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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