# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-53028"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-06-24T16:29:36.615Z"
updatedAt: "2026-06-24T16:29:36.615Z"
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-2026-53028"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-53028.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53028"
title: "usb: typec: Fix error pointer dereference"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nusb: typec: Fix error pointer dereference\n\nThe variable tps-\u003epartner is checked for an error pointer and then if it\nis, it sends an error message but does not return and then immediately\ndereferenced a few lines below:\n\ntps-\u003epartner = typec_register_partner(tps-\u003eport, &desc);\nif (IS_ERR(tps-\u003epartner))\n\tdev_warn(tps-\u003edev, \"%s: failed to register partnet\\n\", __func__);\n\nif (desc.identity) {\n\ttypec_partner_set_identity(tps-\u003epartner);\n\tcd321x-\u003ecur_partner_identity = st.partner_identity;\n}\n\nAdd early return and fix spelling mistake in error message.\n\nDetected by Smatch:\ndrivers/usb/typec/tipd/core.c:827 cd321x_update_work() error:\n'tps-\u003epartner' dereferencing possible ERR_PTR()"
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