---
id: CVE-2026-72058
title: |-
  In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

  net: ixp4xx_hss: fix duplicate HDLC netdev allocation

  ixp4xx_hss_probe() allocates two HDLC netdevs
summary: |-
  In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

  net: ixp4xx_hss: fix duplicate HDLC netdev allocation

  ixp4xx_hss_probe() allocates two HDLC netdevs. The first one is stored
  in ndev, initialized, and registered with …
severity: none
published: '2026-08-15'
updated: '2026-08-23'
source: NVD
sourceUrl: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-72058'
references:
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3f85fcd520aa703824b1958f35169925ddae2558'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/77d925b948ee594a79afe66f85bb94b67940140b'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8f4c3c384092becbf4835a3f8ed8a3df1f544578'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/91850f582783098415a334f8bd0a84c87ff15a8c'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/db818b0e8af7bac16860116a19c341a63d6677b4'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fd0b939ebd1eee29945a539c5ed65c35dddac8d6'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
  - url: 'https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ffba16e6f55948d94b7f16aa113d587c1c4c0643'
    label: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
tags:
  - nvd
epss: 0.00215
epssPercentile: 0.12122
ingestedAt: '2026-08-23T19:51:57.591Z'
---

## Overview

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

net: ixp4xx_hss: fix duplicate HDLC netdev allocation

ixp4xx_hss_probe() allocates two HDLC netdevs. The first one is stored
in ndev, initialized, and registered with register_hdlc_device(). The
second one is stored in port->netdev and later used by the remove path
for unregister_hdlc_device() and free_netdev().

This means that the registered netdev is not the same object that is
unregistered and freed on remove. It also leaks the first allocation if
the second alloc_hdlcdev() call fails, and the first allocation is not
checked before ndev is used.

Older code allocated the HDLC netdev only once and stored the same object
in both the local variable and port->netdev. The buggy conversion split
this into two alloc_hdlcdev() calls. A later rename changed the local
variable name to ndev, but the underlying mismatch remained.

Fix this by allocating the HDLC netdev only once and assigning the same
object to port->netdev.

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.