CVE-2026-98697 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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

USB: serial: fix dynamic id driver deregistration race

Only free the dynamic ids after having deregistered the driver and
removed the "new_id" attribute to avoid leaking any id added by a racing
write to the attribute.

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References

Link	Providers
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/380f57cd58e26e0f3687451196ec446c473c52d9
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4d6da6867b4ac6468d634a0dd3c35dfc0dc8af81
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/63594e8ffe097bc0b7639936f33799a7653dded2
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ebd8fcaaacb66c15ae7e19d14619abe3762e0701

History

Sun, 18 Oct 2026 16:00:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: USB: serial: fix dynamic id driver deregistration race Only free the dynamic ids after having deregistered the driver and removed the "new_id" attribute to avoid leaking any id added by a racing write to the attribute.
Title		USB: serial: fix dynamic id driver deregistration race
First Time appeared		Linux Linux linux Kernel
CPEs		cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::
Vendors & Products		Linux Linux linux Kernel
References		https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/380f57cd58e26e0f3687451196ec446c473c52d9 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4d6da6867b4ac6468d634a0dd3c35dfc0dc8af81 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/63594e8ffe097bc0b7639936f33799a7653dded2 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ebd8fcaaacb66c15ae7e19d14619abe3762e0701

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Linux

Published: 2026-10-18T15:46:22.503Z

Updated: 2026-10-18T15:46:22.503Z

Reserved: 2026-09-25T10:25:14.365Z

Link: CVE-2026-98697

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NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-10-18T16:17:23.177

Modified: 2026-10-18T16:17:23.177

Link: CVE-2026-98697

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