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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-71192"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-02-04T16:00:23.044Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:12:29.458Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:44.935Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-71192"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-71192.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-71192"
title: "ALSA: ac97: fix a double free in snd_ac97_controller_register()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nALSA: ac97: fix a double free in snd_ac97_controller_register()\n\nIf ac97_add_adapter() fails, put_device() is the correct way to drop\nthe device reference. kfree() is not required.\nAdd kfree() if idr_alloc() fails and in ac97_adapter_release() to do\nthe cleanup.\n\nFound by code review."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"74426fbff66eea8e8d1f42c8238c268d1e63a832","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c80f9b3349a99a9d5b295f5bbc23f544c5995ad7"},{"version":"74426fbff66eea8e8d1f42c8238c268d1e63a832","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"21f8bc5179bed91c3f946adb5e55d717b891960c"},{"version":"74426fbff66eea8e8d1f42c8238c268d1e63a832","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fcc04c92cbb5497ce67c58dd2f0001bb87f40396"},{"version":"74426fbff66eea8e8d1f42c8238c268d1e63a832","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cb73d37ac18bc1716690ff5255a0ef1952827e9e"},{"version":"74426fbff66eea8e8d1f42c8238c268d1e63a832","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"830988b6cf197e6dcffdfe2008c5738e6c6c3c0f"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.15"},{"version":"6.1.161","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.121","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.66","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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