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Tracker / CVE-2026-23291

CVE-2026-23291

Medium 5.5

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nfc: pn533: properly drop the usb interface reference on disconnect When the device is disconnected from the driver, there is a "dangling" reference count on the usb interface that was grabbed in the probe callback. Fix this up by properly dropping the reference after we are done with it.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · 3.1 → 5.10.253
linux linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.15.203
linux linux_kernel · 5.16 → 6.1.167
linux linux_kernel · 6.13 → 6.18.17
linux linux_kernel · 6.19 → 6.19.7
linux linux_kernel · 6.2 → 6.6.130
linux linux_kernel · 6.7 → 6.12.77

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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