CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-40223
- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2025-12-04
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
most: usb: Fix use-after-free in hdm_disconnect
hdm_disconnect() calls most_deregister_interface(), which eventually
unregisters the MOST interface device with device_unregister(iface->dev).
If that drops the last reference, the device core may call release_mdev()
immediately while hdm_disconnect() is still executing.
The old code also freed several mdev-owned allocations in
hdm_disconnect() and then performed additional put_device() calls.
Depending on refcount order, this could lead to use-after-free or
double-free when release_mdev() ran (or when unregister paths also
performed puts).
Fix by moving the frees of mdev-owned allocations into release_mdev(),
so they happen exactly once when the device is truly released, and by
dropping the extra put_device() calls in hdm_disconnect() that are
redundant after device_unregister() and most_deregister_interface().
This addresses the KASAN slab-use-after-free reported by syzbot in
hdm_disconnect(). See report and stack traces in the bug link below.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/33daf469f5294b9d07c4fc98216cace9f4f34cc6 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3a3b8e89c7201c5b3b76ac4a4069d1adde1477d6 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4b1270902609ef0d935ed2faa2ea6d122bd148f5 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/578eb18cd111addec94c43f61cd4b4429e454809 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5b5c478f09b1b35e7fe6fc9a1786c9bf6030e831 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/72427dc6f87523995f4e6ae35a948bb2992cabce git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f93a84ffb884d761a9d4e869ba29c238711e81f1 git.kernel.org