CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-46246
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-06-03
- Last modified
- 2026-07-22
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
power: supply: pm8916_lbc: Fix use-after-free for extcon in IRQ handler
Using the `devm_` variant for requesting IRQ _before_ the `devm_`
variant for allocating/registering the `extcon` handle, means that the
`extcon` handle will be deallocated/unregistered _before_ the interrupt
handler (since `devm_` naturally deallocates in reverse allocation
order). This means that during removal, there is a race condition where
an interrupt can fire just _after_ the `extcon` handle has been
freed, *but* just _before_ the corresponding unregistration of the IRQ
handler has run.
This will lead to the IRQ handler calling `extcon_set_state_sync()` with
a freed `extcon` handle. Which usually crashes the system or otherwise
silently corrupts the memory...
Fix this racy use-after-free by making sure the IRQ is requested _after_
the registration of the `extcon` handle.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.75)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.14)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 6.19.4)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/23067259919663580c6f81801847cfc7bd54fd1f Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/47abfc207ab02cf1297257e282e8048da63f0d08 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/48e0f68b50c344bb2d78d65dd98f93e41276ee00 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9fab0120907e6965168e55b1e17cb9dfaf262b86 Patch