usb: gadget: aspeed_udc: check endpoint DMA allocation
Key facts
- Attack vector
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- Privileges required
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- User interaction
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- Attack complexity
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- Impact type
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- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
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- Fix status
- Fixed
No CVSS vector from any source. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: gadget: aspeed_udc: check endpoint DMA allocation ast_udc_probe() allocates a coherent DMA buffer used as the backing store for endpoint buffers. ast_udc_init_ep() derives per-endpoint buffer pointers from udc->ep0_buf, so a failed allocation is dereferenced during probe. Check the allocation before endpoint setup. The existing probe error path called ast_udc_remove(), which unregisters the gadget unconditionally and is not safe before usb_add_gadget_udc() succeeds. Add a local cleanup helper for probe failures so pre-registration failures only unwind the resources that were actually initialized. This was found by a local static analysis checker for unchecked allocator returns while scanning Linux 6.16. The change was checked by applying it to current mainline and by running checkpatch. I do not have access to Aspeed UDC hardware, so no runtime testing was performed.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 6.1.188, 6.6.157, 6.12.110, 6.18.52, 7.2.6, 7.3
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
Not affected: 7 products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-93118
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-m596-7j6r-7chf
- 2026-10-19 Fix available: Linux/[email protected] · CNA
- 2026-10-20 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
- 2026-10-20 CVSS score added · Red Hat
- 2026-11-06 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
References
Other 6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d7ae1a48e70e9c3451b7dc7bc3896c82884bc4df
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4aaad88f857498ed1294f061f0b25d27ae891c55
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6182e708e2e1f55521c8a01d7535630ecc2d7df9
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ff6e88e29965bd06f640e59acdcf0bbf04a7f55c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9e6f57107c1886052d4baaa047a2bc3d0e91be5d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/97cee53a94be3bd4fd8fbed6071bd2f32dad1ab1
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Sources
- CVE-2026-93118 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-93118 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-m596-7j6r-7chf · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-93118 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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