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CVE-2026-90023 (GCVE-0-2026-90023)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-16 10:33 – Updated: 2026-09-16 10:33
VLAI
Title
usb: gadget: f_mass_storage: fix null pointer dereference in fsg_common_set_num_buffers()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: gadget: f_mass_storage: fix null pointer dereference in fsg_common_set_num_buffers() Previously fsg_num_buffers_validate() was removed as it was not necessary due to Kconfig setting the limits for n from 2 to 256 with default as 2. However, setting the page content in such a way that kstrtou8() reflects n value as either 0 or 1 bypasses these restrictions leading to a null pointer dereference if n is 0. Fix this by adding a check for n < 2 and returning -EINVAL if n is either 0 or 1 consistent with Kconfig logic.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: fe5a6c48fd954489f51aab151d5dad9254c76419 , < 9e8dd2a7a8ccbb756771ad985b0ad3387ed3c957 (git)
Affected: fe5a6c48fd954489f51aab151d5dad9254c76419 , < b9b5b5df5b8dd3c1572ed267200276a44cc67d8e (git)
Affected: fe5a6c48fd954489f51aab151d5dad9254c76419 , < 2c0f5ca48674a5b5f9fa4a9c3325aa48053af0bc (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.8
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.8 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.52 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2.5 , ≤ 7.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.3-rc2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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