In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: USB: serial: fix dynamic id driver deregistration race Only free the dynamic ids after having deregistered the driver and removed the "new_id" attribute to avoid leaking any id added by a racing write to the attribute.

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's USB serial subsystem. A race condition during USB serial driver deregistration can result in a kernel memory leak. A local user with permissions to modify driver attributes can trigger this issue by writing to the dynamic identifier interface while the driver is being unregistered, leaving newly allocated identifiers unfreed.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Fix deferred kernel Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Out of support scope kernel Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Fix deferred kernel Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Fix deferred kernel-rt Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Fix deferred kernel Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Fix deferred kernel-rt Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Fix deferred kernel Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Fix deferred kernel-rt Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 Fix deferred openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-8 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 Fix deferred openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98697 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-98697 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/security/vulns.git/plain/cve/published/2026/CVE-2026-98697.mbox