CVE-2026-45939

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: gpib: Fix memory leak in niusbinit In niusbinit, if niusbsetupinit fails, the function returns -EFAULT without freeing the allocated writes buffer, leading to a memory leak. Additionally, niusbsetupinit returns 0 on failure, whic...

CVE-2026-45939

CVE-2026-45939 affects the Linux kernel gpib implementation. The bug is a memory leak in ni_usb_init() when ni_usb_setup_init() fails: the writes buffer is not freed in the error path, and ni_usb_setup_init() may return 0 on failure, causing ni_usb_init() to return -EFAULT. The published fix free...