# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-90020"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-16T10:33:24.866Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:56:33.831Z"
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-2026-90020"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-90020.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-90020"
title: "USB: gadget: fix NULL pointer dereference in gadget_dev_ioctl()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nUSB: gadget: fix NULL pointer dereference in gadget_dev_ioctl()\n\ngadget_dev_ioctl() reads dev-\u003egadget before acquiring dev-\u003elock, but\ndev-\u003estate is checked after acquiring the lock. Therefore a concurrent\nbind can change the device state between these operations, which can\nleave ioctl with a stale NULL gadget pointer and causing a NULL pointer\ndereference at gadget-\u003eops-\u003eioctl.\n\nRead dev-\u003egadget while holding dev-\u003elock so that the gadget pointer\nand device state are sampled consistently."
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