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Linux Kernel EUVDEUVD-2026-32486

| CVE-2026-46103 MEDIUM
Memory Leak (CWE-401)
2026-05-27 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 GHSA-m45c-8x83-q7fx
5.5
CVSS 3.1 · NVD
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NVD PRIMARY
5.5 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
vuln.today AI
5.5 MEDIUM

Local-only attack (AV:L) requiring low-privilege user access (PR:L) to trigger software unbind cycles; no confidentiality or integrity impact, only kernel memory exhaustion.

3.1 AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
4.0 AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
SUSE
MEDIUM
qualitative
Red Hat
5.5 LOW
qualitative

Primary rating from NVD.

CVSS VectorNVD

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

Lifecycle Timeline

5
Analysis Generated
Jun 25, 2026 - 21:39 vuln.today
CVSS changed
Jun 25, 2026 - 21:22 NVD
5.5 (MEDIUM)
Patch available
May 27, 2026 - 19:46 EUVD
CVE Published
May 27, 2026 - 14:17 nvd
MEDIUM 5.5
CVE Published
May 27, 2026 - 14:17 nvd
UNKNOWN (no severity yet)

DescriptionNVD

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

can: ucan: fix devres lifetime

USB drivers bind to USB interfaces and any device managed resources should have their lifetime tied to the interface rather than parent USB device. This avoids issues like memory leaks when drivers are unbound without their devices being physically disconnected (e.g. on probe deferral or configuration changes).

Fix the control message buffer lifetime so that it is released on driver unbind.

AnalysisAI

Memory leak in the Linux kernel's CAN UCAN USB driver allows a local low-privileged user to exhaust kernel memory by repeatedly triggering driver unbind cycles without physical device disconnection. The flaw (CWE-401) exists because devres-managed buffers are incorrectly scoped to the parent USB device rather than the USB interface, so they are never released during software-initiated unbind events such as probe deferral or configuration changes. No public exploit code exists and EPSS sits at 0.02% (5th percentile), indicating near-zero real-world exploitation probability despite the CVSS Availability: High rating.

Technical ContextAI

The Linux kernel's ucan driver (drivers/net/can/usb/ucan.c) supports USB-to-CAN adapters that implement the UCAN protocol. USB drivers bind to usb_interface structures, and Linux's devres framework (devm_* APIs) ties managed allocations to a device node's lifetime. CWE-401 (Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime) manifests here because the control message buffer is anchored to the parent usb_device node instead of the usb_interface node. When the interface driver is unbound without physical disconnection - as happens during probe deferral, USB configuration negotiation, or sysfs-driven unbind - the interface cleanup path runs but the buffer is not freed, since it is still associated with the surviving parent device. This is a standard devres scope bug present in multiple Linux stable branches per CPE cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, introduced at commit 9f2d3eae88d26c29d96e42983b755940d9169cd9.

RemediationAI

Upgrade to a patched Linux kernel: 6.6.140 or later on the 6.6 LTS branch, 6.12.86 or later on the 6.12 branch, 6.18.27 or later on the 6.18 branch, or 7.0.4 (also 7.1-rc1) on mainline. Upstream fix commits are available at git.kernel.org stable trees including https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c0d3ccc6929e4509076df8f30a4fb1dc5018b0ae and related commits. If kernel upgrade is not immediately feasible, removing the ucan module (modprobe -r ucan) on systems that do not use UCAN USB-to-CAN hardware eliminates all exposure with zero operational impact. On systems that do require UCAN hardware, physically disconnecting and reconnecting the USB adapter instead of performing software-driven unbind operations prevents the leak path until a patched kernel is deployed; however, this is not always operationally practical in embedded or industrial environments. Distribution-specific kernel package updates from the vendor should be checked independently, as downstream packaging schedules vary.

Vendor StatusVendor

SUSE

Severity: Moderate
Product Status
openSUSE Tumbleweed Fixed
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 15 SP7 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 15 SP7 Affected

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