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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-43327" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-05-08T13:31:12.896Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-23T16:06:42.428Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z" 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-2026-43327" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43327.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43327" title: "USB: dummy-hcd: Fix locking/synchronization error" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nUSB: dummy-hcd: Fix locking/synchronization error\n\nSyzbot testing was able to provoke an addressing exception and crash\nin the usb_gadget_udc_reset() routine in\ndrivers/usb/gadgets/udc/core.c, resulting from the fact that the\nroutine was called with a second (\"driver\") argument of NULL. The bad\ncaller was set_link_state() in dummy_hcd.c, and the problem arose\nbecause of a race between a USB reset and driver unbind.\n\nThese sorts of races were not supposed to be possible; commit\n7dbd8f4cabd9 (\"USB: dummy-hcd: Fix erroneous synchronization change\"),\nalong with a few followup commits, was written specifically to prevent\nthem. As it turns out, there are (at least) two errors remaining in\nthe code. Another patch will address the second error; this one is\nconcerned with the first.\n\nThe error responsible for the syzbot crash occurred because the\nstop_activity() routine will sometimes drop and then re-acquire the\ndum-\u003elock spinlock. A call to stop_activity() occurs in\nset_link_state() when handling an emulated USB reset, after the test\nof dum-\u003eints_enabled and before the increment of dum-\u003ecallback_usage.\nThis allowed another thread (doing a driver unbind) to sneak in and\ngrab the spinlock, and then clear dum-\u003eints_enabled and dum-\u003edriver.\nNormally this other thread would have to wait for dum-\u003ecallback_usage\nto go down to 0 before it would clear dum-\u003edriver, but in this case it\ndidn't have to wait since dum-\u003ecallback_usage had not yet been\nincremented.\n\nThe fix is to increment dum-\u003ecallback_usage _before_ calling\nstop_activity() instead of after. Then the thread doing the unbind\nwill not clear dum-\u003edriver until after the call to\nusb_gadget_udc_reset() safely returns and dum-\u003ecallback_usage has been\ndecremented again." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"7dbd8f4cabd96db5a50513de9d83a8105a5ffc81","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6350c7dd33ab481ef41c931a238361490c32d15c"},{"version":"7dbd8f4cabd96db5a50513de9d83a8105a5ffc81","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cc97fb5969177cccce2e23b31298df220fc7570d"},{"version":"7dbd8f4cabd96db5a50513de9d83a8105a5ffc81","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"218886b2ef2dea7627d3700ab0abaf4bf9d1161f"},{"version":"7dbd8f4cabd96db5a50513de9d83a8105a5ffc81","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"791966f85b439b261bf19865cf1c07c065ffb4b4"},{"version":"7dbd8f4cabd96db5a50513de9d83a8105a5ffc81","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"805b1833d6ed6da5086e610578a28e71bb54fbbb"},{"version":"7dbd8f4cabd96db5a50513de9d83a8105a5ffc81","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"efbd9441f1e769a7aae1813d497cec09cbdff031"},{"version":"7dbd8f4cabd96db5a50513de9d83a8105a5ffc81","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"69ab97a693251d6a6093e630060a3c744fd58524"},{"version":"7dbd8f4cabd96db5a50513de9d83a8105a5ffc81","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"616a63ff495df12863692ab3f9f7b84e3fa7a66d"},{"version":"7b416b9dac6ede26d4ca0c1a88b448b543623ff3","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"8590bc1da625dd4a589eac0fc3aa3cf4f400424d","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"a867d5b932ac4911d3f8a1e63505061b0c81f889","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"e84b4a008365b7edbd842a063ae28d040a98db25","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"e39b17143a5b5aac81f066d455e5d3a9877eb3ae","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"4f8ae1fcb0dfbb72a7678f81bf01fb7fc85c6715","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"3.2.97","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.3"},{"version":"3.16.52","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.17"},{"version":"4.1.46","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.2"},{"version":"4.4.92","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.5"},{"version":"4.9.55","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.10"},{"version":"4.13.6","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.14"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.14","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.14"},{"version":"5.10.253","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.203","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.168","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.134","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.81","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.22","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19.12","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.19.*"},{"version":"7.0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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