CVE-2026-89736: high-severity vulnerability in Linux
usb: gadget: u_audio: Fix use-after-free on sound card disconnect
Published · Updated
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.8epss 0.1%
exploitation probability
0.1%top 98% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
usb: gadget: u_audio: Fix use-after-free on sound card disconnect
g_audio_cleanup() invokes snd_card_free_when_closed() to initiate sound
card teardown and immediately frees the underlying struct snd_uac_chip
context. However, snd_card_free_when_closed() returns asynchronously
while ALSA control elements (kctls) remain open in userspace.
When userspace control applications access or close these open file
descriptors, kctl callbacks attempt to dereference kctl->private_data
pointing to &uac->c_prm or &uac->p_prm within the freed uac structure,
resulting in a use-after-free (UAF) memory corruption.
Fix this issue by deferring the destruction of struct snd_uac_chip until
all references to the ALSA sound card are released. Register a custom
card->private_free callback (u_audio_card_free) during g_audio_setup()
that frees uac and its associated playback/capture request and ring
buffers only when the sound card reference count drops to zero.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
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References
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4e747c864a88537e18b1ffc19a1954c9686bb8e1https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6f46762196f04464e1050a9ee94e72b917db9010https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/79a92896e2bb9471550c56fc23d8d93592f04c27https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/858965947081d10d41d9a1010a540d3d5eea958bhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/891a8d11f4d5eb50b2ce7570f4f98204a7a57493https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a7ecd1a04f4f485d7be6443d0f0b2c61a800cb82https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c74ff0b1a0fca53d3ac185873c87d6a719b30a47https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f983793f03148b097977f200298db215cd2d4438