CVE-2026-31578 (GCVE-0-2026-31578)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-24 14:42 – Updated: 2026-05-11 22:11
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Title
media: as102: fix to not free memory after the device is registered in as102_usb_probe()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: as102: fix to not free memory after the device is registered in as102_usb_probe() In as102_usb driver, the following race condition occurs: ``` CPU0 CPU1 as102_usb_probe() kzalloc(); // alloc as102_dev_t .... usb_register_dev(); fd = sys_open("/path/to/dev"); // open as102 fd .... usb_deregister_dev(); .... kfree(); // free as102_dev_t .... sys_close(fd); as102_release() // UAF!! as102_usb_release() kfree(); // DFB!! ``` When a USB character device registered with usb_register_dev() is later unregistered (via usb_deregister_dev() or disconnect), the device node is removed so new open() calls fail. However, file descriptors that are already open do not go away immediately: they remain valid until the last reference is dropped and the driver's .release() is invoked. In as102, as102_usb_probe() calls usb_register_dev() and then, on an error path, does usb_deregister_dev() and frees as102_dev_t right away. If userspace raced a successful open() before the deregistration, that open FD will later hit as102_release() --> as102_usb_release() and access or free as102_dev_t again, occur a race to use-after-free and double-free vuln. The fix is to never kfree(as102_dev_t) directly once usb_register_dev() has succeeded. After deregistration, defer freeing memory to .release(). In other words, let release() perform the last kfree when the final open FD is closed.
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Linux Linux Affected: cd19f7d3e39b3160595d56bb3e3a2bf4f7f4669c , < cb8092038e95dc1113a68e63762de40fff61ba71 (git)
Affected: cd19f7d3e39b3160595d56bb3e3a2bf4f7f4669c , < 582fbecb3756330006fe1950762412a68c2cacd2 (git)
Affected: cd19f7d3e39b3160595d56bb3e3a2bf4f7f4669c , < 09e9206008b887aa553733bd915d73131071a086 (git)
Affected: cd19f7d3e39b3160595d56bb3e3a2bf4f7f4669c , < 2eeae47a438694408189138048a786be99954032 (git)
Affected: cd19f7d3e39b3160595d56bb3e3a2bf4f7f4669c , < 7e5aedf6059cba2a669d86caeaf5a51f33ec85a1 (git)
Affected: cd19f7d3e39b3160595d56bb3e3a2bf4f7f4669c , < 8bd29dbe03fc5b0f039ab2395ff37b64236d2f0c (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 3.14
Unaffected: 0 , < 3.14 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.136 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.83 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.24 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19.14 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0.1 , ≤ 7.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1-rc1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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