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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-89449" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:43:15.397Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:46:58.738Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:35.090Z" 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-2026-89449" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89449.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89449" title: "iommu: Fix dev_iommu memory leak when device_add fails in iommu_mock_device_add" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\niommu: Fix dev_iommu memory leak when device_add fails in iommu_mock_device_add\n\niommu_mock_device_add() first calls iommu_fwspec_init(), which on\nsuccess allocates both dev-\u003eiommu (via dev_iommu_get()) and\ndev-\u003eiommu-\u003efwspec. If the subsequent device_add(dev) call fails,\nthe error path only calls iommu_fwspec_free(dev), which frees\nfwspec but leaves dev-\u003eiommu still allocated.\n\nThis triggers the following kmemleak report when fuzzing with Syzkaller:\n\nBUG: memory leak\nunreferenced object 0xffff888011e0a200 (size 192):\n comm \"syz.1.1695\", pid 24885, jiffies 4295222527\n hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ad 4e ad de .............N..\n ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ................\n backtrace (crc 25df5bb3):\n kmemleak_alloc_recursive include/linux/kmemleak.h:44 [inline]\n slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4575 [inline]\n slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4899 [inline]\n __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x47a/0x710 mm/slub.c:5415\n kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:950 [inline]\n kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1188 [inline]\n dev_iommu_get+0x10c/0x1a0 drivers/iommu/iommu.c:408\n iommu_fwspec_init+0x288/0x4d0 drivers/iommu/iommu.c:3087\n iommu_mock_device_add+0x46/0xb0 drivers/iommu/iommu.c:385\n mock_dev_create drivers/iommu/iommufd/selftest.c:1025 [inline]\n iommufd_test_mock_domain drivers/iommu/iommufd/selftest.c:1066 [inline]\n iommufd_test+0x2f8a/0x6190 drivers/iommu/iommufd/selftest.c:2072\n iommufd_fops_ioctl+0x367/0x540 drivers/iommu/iommufd/main.c:533\n vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]\n __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:597 [inline]\n __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:583 [inline]\n __x64_sys_ioctl+0x18e/0x210 fs/ioctl.c:583\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0x116/0x800 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f\n\nFix this by calling dev_iommu_free(dev) instead of iommu_fwspec_free(dev)\nin the device_add() failure path. dev_iommu_free() frees both fwspec\nand the outer dev_iommu struct and clears dev-\u003eiommu." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"2a918911ed3d0841923525ed0fe707762ee78844","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f80f3acb69164800051ecdee871b6b006cbc2e66"},{"version":"2a918911ed3d0841923525ed0fe707762ee78844","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"eaf44262af24810d16800b988c92dfce90f73370"},{"version":"2a918911ed3d0841923525ed0fe707762ee78844","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b7b0b3851474883d4aba6ed72da87141204b23e5"},{"version":"1daf67217b0d0bf88ef7208d7fbeefe2378c6590","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"6.17.3","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.18"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.18","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.18"},{"version":"6.18.50","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.4","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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