{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-64376 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2026-64376 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 25 Jul 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2026-64376 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-64376 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 25 Jul 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-64376 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-64376/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-64376/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-64376","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-64376/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-64376","record":{"aliases":["BELL-CVE-2026-64376","DEBIAN-CVE-2026-64376","GHSA-vfm9-vf3r-mgwg","ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2026-64376","UBUNTU-CVE-2026-64376"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"A reference counting bug in the Linux kernel firmware loader can cause a memory leak, potentially leading to denial of service.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"memory_corruption"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":5.5,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfirmware_loader: fix device reference leak in firmware_upload_register()\n\nfirmware_upload_register()\n  -\u003e fw_create_instance()\n     -\u003e device_initialize()\n\nAfter fw_create_instance() succeeds, the lifetime of the embedded struct\ndevice is expected to be managed through the device core reference\ncounting, since fw_create_instance() has already called\ndevice_initialize().\n\nIn firmware_upload_register(), if alloc_lookup_fw_priv() fails after\nfw_create_instance() succeeds, the code reaches free_fw_sysfs and frees\nfw_sysfs directly instead of releasing the device reference with\nput_device(). This may leave the reference count of the embedded struct\ndevice unbalanced, resulting in a refcount leak.\n\nThe issue was identified by a static analysis tool I developed and\nconfirmed by manual review. Fix this by using put_device(fw_dev) in the\nfailure path and letting fw_dev_release() handle the final cleanup,\ninstead of freeing the instance directly from the error path.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"firmware_loader: fix device reference leak in firmware_upload_register()","id":"CVE-2026-64376","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"memory_corruption","year":"2026"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":6,"next":{"headline":"cpufreq: qcom-cpufreq-hw: Fix possible double free","id":"CVE-2026-64377"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"proc: protect ptrace_may_access() with exec_update_lock (FD links)","id":"CVE-2026-64375"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2026-07-25","related":[{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write","id":"CVE-2026-53266","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2026-06-25"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation","id":"CVE-2013-6282","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-11-19"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2022-0185","kev_date_added":"2024-08-21","published":"2022-02-11"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation","id":"CVE-2013-2094","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-05-14"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Unspecified","id":"CVE-2026-53362","kev_date_added":"2026-08-27","published":"2026-07-04"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Missing Initialization of a Variable","id":"CVE-2026-46300","kev_date_added":"2026-10-28","published":"2026-05-23"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Race Condition","id":"CVE-2025-39964","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-10-13"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-08-17","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A reference counting bug in the Linux kernel firmware loader can cause a memory leak, potentially leading to denial of service.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-64376/"}