CVE-2024-26653
kernel: usb: misc: ljca: Fix double free in error handling path
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · April 1, 2024
Updated · November 21, 2025
Description
A vulnerability was found in the USB misc/ljca driver for Linux kernel resulted in a double free occurred during error handling when an auxiliary_device_add() encountered an error and invoked auxiliary_device_uninit(), the function ljca_auxdev_release erroneously called kfree() on auxdev->dev.platform_data, leading to double freeing of the parameter data.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
Red Hat has investigated whether a possible mitigation exists for this issue, and has not been able to identify a practical example. Please update the affected package as soon as possible.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-415 · Double Free