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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-80923" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-09T16:19:43.538Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:45:07.298Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z" 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-2026-80923" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-80923.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-80923" title: "xhci: dbgtty: Fix unregister on tty_register_driver() failure" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nxhci: dbgtty: Fix unregister on tty_register_driver() failure\n\nIf tty_register_driver() fails, it drops the reference, but fails to set\nthe global dbc_tty_driver to NULL, causing the unregister to be called\nagain when module exits.\n\nOn module unload dbc_tty_exit() only gates its cleanup on the driver\npointer being non-NULL, so it operates on the already-freed driver:\n\n module_init(xhci_hcd_init)\n xhci_hcd_init()\n xhci_dbc_init() [return value ignored]\n dbc_tty_init()\n tty_register_driver() fails\n tty_driver_kref_put() -\u003e driver freed\n (dbc_tty_driver left dangling)\n ...\n module_exit(xhci_hcd_fini)\n xhci_hcd_fini()\n xhci_dbc_exit()\n dbc_tty_exit()\n if (dbc_tty_driver) -\u003e true (dangling)\n tty_unregister_driver() -\u003e use-after-free" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"4521f16139409cdf9462c7325d43454462cff6c3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"01b7bc0938061f2fd46e0094f6483d8c6c02f7d3"},{"version":"4521f16139409cdf9462c7325d43454462cff6c3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"43635ff6401ca0e0ed21875379eeded921321525"},{"version":"4521f16139409cdf9462c7325d43454462cff6c3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"eaca2814f32b9872a332326324b9e83e01f156d2"},{"version":"4521f16139409cdf9462c7325d43454462cff6c3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"943f976c93e70563b132f5585ff68b08c89641a2"},{"version":"4521f16139409cdf9462c7325d43454462cff6c3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0d0faf3cc44c4d86fc6faf5cea972c0fbe00b922"},{"version":"4521f16139409cdf9462c7325d43454462cff6c3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"33ed35ca629477f57e0dd1d77d6df96cf5a9eb55"},{"version":"4521f16139409cdf9462c7325d43454462cff6c3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0e469b94fbba8eb03666da41dd1082b793c50c1a"},{"version":"4521f16139409cdf9462c7325d43454462cff6c3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a916fa66a43e10f63198b6ce978badffc678821a"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.9","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.9"},{"version":"5.15.220","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.187","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.156","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.108","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.49","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","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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