CVE-2026-23021

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.

CVSS 3.1

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

EPSS

0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 10% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

CWE

CWE-401

Published

2026-01-31

Modified

2026-10-19

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-21

Affected

• linux:linux_kernel

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/471dfb97599eec74e0476046b3ef8e7037f27b34
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5397ea6d21c35a17707e201a60761bdee00bcc4e
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/93f18eaa190374e0f2d253e3b1a65cee19a7abe6
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a40af9a2904a1ab8ce61866ebe2a894ef30754ba
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ac5d92d2826dec51e5d4c6854865bc5817277452

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