Vulnerability Details CVE-2026-23162
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/xe/nvm: Fix double-free on aux add failure
After a successful auxiliary_device_init(), aux_dev->dev.release
(xe_nvm_release_dev()) is responsible for the kfree(nvm). When
there is failure with auxiliary_device_add(), driver will call
auxiliary_device_uninit(), which call put_device(). So that the
.release callback will be triggered to free the memory associated
with the auxiliary_device.
Move the kfree(nvm) into the auxiliary_device_init() failure path
and remove the err goto path to fix below error.
"
[ 13.232905] ==================================================================
[ 13.232911] BUG: KASAN: double-free in xe_nvm_init+0x751/0xf10 [xe]
[ 13.233112] Free of addr ffff888120635000 by task systemd-udevd/273
[ 13.233120] CPU: 8 UID: 0 PID: 273 Comm: systemd-udevd Not tainted 6.19.0-rc2-lgci-xe-kernel+ #225 PREEMPT(voluntary)
...
[ 13.233125] Call Trace:
[ 13.233126] <TASK>
[ 13.233127] dump_stack_lvl+0x7f/0xc0
[ 13.233132] print_report+0xce/0x610
[ 13.233136] ? kasan_complete_mode_report_info+0x5d/0x1e0
[ 13.233139] ? xe_nvm_init+0x751/0xf10 [xe]
...
"
v2: drop err goto path. (Alexander)
(cherry picked from commit a3187c0c2bbd947ffff97f90d077ac88f9c2a215)
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.0
EPSS Ranking 6.9%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 7.8
Products affected by CVE-2026-23162
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17.1
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17.10
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17.11
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17.12
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17.13
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17.2
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17.3
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17.4
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17.5
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17.6
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17.7
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17.8
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17.9
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.18
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.18.1
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.18.2
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.18.3
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.18.4
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.18.5
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.18.6
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.18.7
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.18.8
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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.19