CVE-2026-68314

net: mctp i3c: clean up notifier and buses if driver register fails

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Aug 10, 2026
Updated
Aug 17, 2026
Reserved
Jul 30, 2026

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Description

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

net: mctp i3c: clean up notifier and buses if driver register fails

mctp_i3c_mod_init() registers the I3C bus notifier and then walks the existing buses with i3c_for_each_bus_locked(mctp_i3c_bus_add_new, NULL) before registering the I3C device driver. If i3c_driver_register() fails, the function returns the error directly, leaving the notifier registered and every mctp_i3c_bus object created for the existing buses allocated. The notifier is left pointing into the module that failed to load and the bus list is leaked.

Mirror the module exit path on this failure: unregister the notifier and tear down the buses that were added before returning the error.

This issue was identified during our ongoing static-analysis research while reviewing kernel code.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • c8755b29b58ec65be17bcb8c40763d2dcb1f1db5 to before 49d15cfab247c0f60ce1800bdcd66850beea7b3aAffected
  • c8755b29b58ec65be17bcb8c40763d2dcb1f1db5 to before a8bd8c109da5a87f0c5db0c23cf550d039fde77cAffected
  • c8755b29b58ec65be17bcb8c40763d2dcb1f1db5 to before a40e83a34eaa2be64372286040696f04eabcd09fAffected
  • c8755b29b58ec65be17bcb8c40763d2dcb1f1db5 to before 03d1057305ef17ac3f5936ac1580bc9a1a826e14Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.7Affected
  • before 6.7Not affected
  • 6.12.101 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.42 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.1.6 through 7.1.*Not affected
  • 7.2 and laterNot affected

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