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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-43432" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-05-08T14:22:03.985Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-23T16:06:59.368Z" 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-2026-43432" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43432.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43432" title: "usb: xhci: Fix memory leak in xhci_disable_slot()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nusb: xhci: Fix memory leak in xhci_disable_slot()\n\nxhci_alloc_command() allocates a command structure and, when the\nsecond argument is true, also allocates a completion structure.\nCurrently, the error handling path in xhci_disable_slot() only frees\nthe command structure using kfree(), causing the completion structure\nto leak.\n\nUse xhci_free_command() instead of kfree(). xhci_free_command() correctly\nfrees both the command structure and the associated completion structure.\nSince the command structure is allocated with zero-initialization,\ncommand-\u003ein_ctx is NULL and will not be erroneously freed by\nxhci_free_command().\n\nThis bug was found using an experimental static analysis tool we are\ndeveloping. The tool is based on the LLVM framework and is specifically\ndesigned to detect memory management issues. It is currently under\nactive development and not yet publicly available, but we plan to\nopen-source it after our research is published.\n\nThe bug was originally detected on v6.13-rc1 using our static analysis\ntool, and we have verified that the issue persists in the latest mainline\nkernel.\n\nWe performed build testing on x86_64 with allyesconfig using GCC=11.4.0.\nSince triggering these error paths in xhci_disable_slot() requires specific\nhardware conditions or abnormal state, we were unable to construct a test\ncase to reliably trigger these specific error paths at runtime." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"fee8be5bde562d4f5f9a100ca80c6d7072ed34c8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1e800e26d54ccf2ddf2ea6d6cbe021c804d8aa62"},{"version":"02d5a2a48bb44e7404b794df87e57588b2fd604e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6288baf0c8c4dcfbf206773aede9c1f2269cec28"},{"version":"7faac1953ed1f658f719cdf7bb7303fa5eef822c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"46aea90763832cd6e9b0c2e1c00e6a9512156d4b"},{"version":"7faac1953ed1f658f719cdf7bb7303fa5eef822c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2e2baa8fb5aa4d080cbfeb84c51eff797529f413"},{"version":"7faac1953ed1f658f719cdf7bb7303fa5eef822c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"807e4fb5140c73eb5dba1e399a990db5c1f3cdf8"},{"version":"7faac1953ed1f658f719cdf7bb7303fa5eef822c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c65f1b840ab8ce72ba68f1b63bab7960f8fdfa89"},{"version":"7faac1953ed1f658f719cdf7bb7303fa5eef822c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"078b446efc0f5e496c31bccb72b98af979963a83"},{"version":"7faac1953ed1f658f719cdf7bb7303fa5eef822c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c1c8550e70401159184130a1afc6261db01fc0ce"},{"version":"cc7c2818c71ebace207df40cc586c8c74e3d1a59","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"ec0cddcc2454ab08193beb473978f8f8889b7e24","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.10.85","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.10.253"},{"version":"5.15.8","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15.203"},{"version":"4.19.221","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.20"},{"version":"5.4.165","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.5"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.16","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.16"},{"version":"5.10.253","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.203","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.167","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.130","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.78","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.19","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19.9","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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