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CVE-2024-43883

CRITICAL CVSS: 9.8 Published: 2024-08-23 Modified: 2026-08-04

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: vhci-hcd: Do not drop references before new references are gained At a few places the driver carries stale pointers to references that can still be used. Make sure that does not happen. This strictly speaking closes ZDI-CAN-22273, though there may be similar races in the driver.

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

CWE-416

References