CVE-2026-74734

CVE CVE-2026-74734EUVD EUVD-2026-66564Published 2026-08-26T14:36:48.000Z

What the advisory describes

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: firewire: ohci: fix NULL pointer dereference in ar_context_release During the error handling path of the driver's probe function, a NULL pointer dereference can occur in ar_context_release(). When pci_probe() fails early (e.g., if pcim_enable_device() or MMIO mapping fails), the devres cleanup mechanism invokes release_ohci(). This function unconditionally calls ar_context_release() to clean up the asynchronous receive contexts. However, if ar_context_init() was not yet called, ctx->ohci remains NULL (as the fw_ohci structure is zero-initialized by devres_alloc()). ar_context_release() immediately dereferences ctx->ohci to get the dev pointer before checking if the context was actually initialized, leading to a crash: Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000001: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000008-0x000000000000000f] RIP: 0010:ar_context_release+0x3f/0x380 drivers/firewire/ohci.c:543 Call Trace: release_ohci+0x3f/0x60 drivers/firewire/ohci.c:3567 release_nodes drivers/base/devres.c:546 [inline] devres_release_all+0x1a8/0x260 drivers/base/devres.c:576 device_unbind_cleanup drivers/base/dd.c:597 [inline] really_probe+0x451/0xae0 drivers/base/dd.c:772 To fix this, move the assignment of the dev pointer after the !ctx->buffer check. If ctx->buffer is NULL, it indicates that the context was never successfully initialized and there is nothing to release, safely avoiding the dereference of the uninitialized ctx->ohci pointer.

Source: EUVD (ENISA), in the words of the advisory.

Products the advisory names

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• Linux — Linux patch: 6.18.46; 5716e58aecdd4f7225c2e46ce903a839fc54f22f <ed5470771c7ed7f959230c4697f316af83426a90; patch: 7.1.10; 6.5; patch: 7.2; 5716e58aecdd4f7225c2e46ce903a839fc54f22f <7d228ba43279de2d191f25e139fad166409c2c06; patch: 0; 5716e58aecdd4f7225c2e46ce903a839fc54f22f <42d217add8d80d6e7d9f58f80d11ea9b07ea113e

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• Linux — Linux

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