# 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-2026-90023"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-16T10:33:26.905Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:49:28.767Z"
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-2026-90023"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-90023.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-90023"
title: "usb: gadget: f_mass_storage: fix null pointer dereference in fsg_common_set_num_buffers()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nusb: gadget: f_mass_storage: fix null pointer dereference in fsg_common_set_num_buffers()\n\nPreviously fsg_num_buffers_validate() was removed as it was not\nnecessary due to Kconfig setting the limits for n from 2 to 256 with\ndefault as 2. However, setting the page content in such a way that\nkstrtou8() reflects n value as either 0 or 1 bypasses these\nrestrictions leading to a null pointer dereference if n is 0. Fix\nthis by adding a check for n \u003c 2 and returning -EINVAL if n is\neither 0 or 1 consistent with Kconfig logic."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"fe5a6c48fd954489f51aab151d5dad9254c76419","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f4f0fe3ab47ed57ee4974fdd3e9dccb7839a7ebf"},{"version":"fe5a6c48fd954489f51aab151d5dad9254c76419","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"51cc9af4f2d3f0b765266aced66b9b532b423b13"},{"version":"fe5a6c48fd954489f51aab151d5dad9254c76419","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9e8dd2a7a8ccbb756771ad985b0ad3387ed3c957"},{"version":"fe5a6c48fd954489f51aab151d5dad9254c76419","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b9b5b5df5b8dd3c1572ed267200276a44cc67d8e"},{"version":"fe5a6c48fd954489f51aab151d5dad9254c76419","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2c0f5ca48674a5b5f9fa4a9c3325aa48053af0bc"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.8","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.8"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.112","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.52","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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