Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Linux Kernel up to 7.0-rc1. Impacted is an unknown function of the component USB Endpoint. The manipulation results in denial of service. This vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-2026-23365. There is no exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel up to 7.0-rc1. It has been classified as critical. Affected is an unknown function of the component USB Endpoint. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. This is going to have an impact on availability. CVE summarizes:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: usb: kalmia: validate USB endpoints The kalmia driver should validate that the device it is probing has the proper number and types of USB endpoints it is expecting before it binds to it. If a malicious device were to not have the same urbs the driver will crash later on when it blindly accesses these endpoints.

The advisory is available at git.kernel.org. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-23365 since 01/13/2026. The exploitability is told to be difficult. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

Upgrading to version 6.1.167, 6.6.130, 6.12.77, 6.18.17, 6.19.7 or 7.0-rc2 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 28a380bfa5bc7f6a9380b85e8eab919ee6ac1701/12c0243de0aee0ab27cc00932fd5edae65c1e3a2/51c20ea5f1555a984c041b0dbf56f00d41b9e652/011684cd18349aa4c52167c8ac37a0524169f48c/7bfda1a0be4caec3263753d567678451cef73a85/c58b6c29a4c9b8125e8ad3bca0637e00b71e2693 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at git.kernel.org. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

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Type

• Operating System

Vendor

• Linux

Name

• Kernel

Version

• 6.1.166
• 6.6.129
• 6.12.0
• 6.12.1
• 6.12.2
• 6.12.3
• 6.12.4
• 6.12.5
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• 6.12.71
• 6.12.72
• 6.12.73
• 6.12.74
• 6.12.75
• 6.12.76
• 6.18.0
• 6.18.1
• 6.18.2
• 6.18.3
• 6.18.4
• 6.18.5
• 6.18.6
• 6.18.7
• 6.18.8
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• 6.18.10
• 6.18.11
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• 6.18.16
• 6.19.0
• 6.19.1
• 6.19.2
• 6.19.3
• 6.19.4
• 6.19.5
• 6.19.6
• 7.0-rc1

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.kernel.org/

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