# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-90024"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-16T10:33:27.624Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:56:38.894Z"
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-2026-90024"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-90024.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-90024"
title: "usb: gadget: midi2: Fix null-pointer dereference in f_midi2_free_ep_reqs"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nusb: gadget: midi2: Fix null-pointer dereference in f_midi2_free_ep_reqs\n\nA null-pointer dereference occurs in f_midi2_free_ep_reqs() when attempting\nto clean up an endpoint that was never initialized.\n\nWhen configuring the MIDI 2.0 gadget via configfs and setting the block\ndirection to SNDRV_UMP_DIR_INPUT, the initialization of the midi1_ep_out\nendpoint is explicitly skipped during the gadget bind phase\n(f_midi2_bind()). As a result, the usb_ep-\u003ecard field remains NULL.\n\nLater, when the host sets the alternate setting, f_midi2_set_alt()\nunconditionally stops both the IN and OUT endpoints by calling\nf_midi2_stop_eps(), which in turn calls f_midi2_free_ep_reqs() for both\nendpoints. When f_midi2_free_ep_reqs() is called for the uninitialized\nmidi1_ep_out, it attempts to dereference usb_ep-\u003ecard to determine the\nnumber of requests to free, leading to a crash.\n\nFix this by using usb_ep-\u003enum_reqs instead of usb_ep-\u003ecard-\u003einfo.num_reqs\nin f_midi2_free_ep_reqs(). usb_ep-\u003enum_reqs is correctly set during\nf_midi2_init_ep() and remains 0 if the endpoint was never initialized,\nsafely avoiding the loop. For consistency, apply the same change to\nf_midi2_alloc_ep_reqs().\n\nOops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address\n0xdffffc00000000ee: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI\nKASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000770-0x0000000000000777]\n...\nRIP: 0010:f_midi2_free_ep_reqs drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_midi2.c:1166\n[inline]\nRIP: 0010:f_midi2_stop_eps+0x28e/0x4d0\ndrivers/usb/gadget/function/f_midi2.c:1246\n...\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n f_midi2_set_alt+0x11c/0xf00 drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_midi2.c:1296\n composite_setup+0x1ffd/0x3480 drivers/usb/gadget/composite.c:1933\n configfs_composite_setup+0xbd/0x100 drivers/usb/gadget/configfs.c:1877"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"8b645922b22303cec4628dbbbf6c8553d1cdec87","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"51ddc55c75087ac25342f6d73d3aeaf14f59bd76"},{"version":"8b645922b22303cec4628dbbbf6c8553d1cdec87","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5b92f6a0c7c01efbb335d837ecdf34d38d98720f"},{"version":"8b645922b22303cec4628dbbbf6c8553d1cdec87","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9c3d5091e3568ed48ac4c5b08a78eb06fad0d70a"},{"version":"8b645922b22303cec4628dbbbf6c8553d1cdec87","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4079f19a0e1ce76f1e21a398f02aca150ceaaf61"},{"version":"8b645922b22303cec4628dbbbf6c8553d1cdec87","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f0efaf1872949e96d213c8e910fd9517f7d7c406"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.6","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6"},{"version":"6.6.157","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.110","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.51","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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