CVE-2026-23021

Updated on 31 Jan 2026

Severity

5.5 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
5.5
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Overview

About vulnerability

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: usb: pegasus: fix memory leak in update_eth_regs_async()

When asynchronously writing to the device registers and if usb_submit_urb() fail, the code fail to release allocated to this point resources.

Details

Affected packages:
linux-hwe @ 4.15.0 (+13 more)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: usb: pegasus: fix memory leak in update_eth_regs_async()

When asynchronously writing to the device registers and if usb_submit_urb() fail, the code fail to release allocated to this point resources.

Fixes