CVE-2026-98772: vulnerability in Linux
USB: serial: fix port tear down use-after-free
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3Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 94% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
USB: serial: fix port tear down use-after-free
Some drivers for multiport devices access port driver data from
completion handlers of shared URBs submitted at attach() or first open()
and stopped at disconnect() or last close(), respectively.
A simple NULL check before accessing the driver data makes sure that a
port state container has at least been allocated, but a completion
handler can still race with port tear down.
Reorder the disconnect handling so that ports are not deregistered (and
their driver data freed) until after all ports have been hung up and the
driver disconnect() callback has run so that all I/O has been stopped.
Affected products
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References
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/33c920f7c5952dfc42d1b8ea6efe16b1f0bb0c5bhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5e8980a81af195c49084be5b4c031085b56c7443https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/60cc9379c3e650d1ebfba4de63f1242537a62a32https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e4a6883ad9b4686a5f4bd90ff55a44d7ab65bd3chttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e80ee74206f260eb1282e7d1339ff146a4a410d0