CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-64251
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-07-24
- Last modified
- 2026-08-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 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:
pwrseq: core: fix use-after-free in pwrseq_debugfs_seq_next()
pwrseq_debugfs_seq_next() declares 'next' with __free(put_device),
which causes put_device() to be called on the returned pointer when
the variable goes out of scope. This results in a use-after-free
since the seq_file framework receives a pointer whose reference has
already been dropped.
Simply removing __free(put_device) would fix the UAF but would leak
the reference acquired by bus_find_next_device(), as stop() only
calls up_read(&pwrseq_sem) and never releases the device reference.
Fix this by making the reference counting consistent across all
seq_file callbacks, matching the standard pattern used by PCI and
SCSI:
- start(): use get_device() so it returns a referenced pointer.
- next(): explicitly put_device(curr) to release the previous
device's reference (no NULL check needed - the seq_file framework
only calls next() while the previous return was non-NULL).
- stop(): put_device(data) to release the last iterated device's
reference, with a NULL guard since stop() may be called with NULL
when start() returned NULL or next() reached end-of-sequence.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.11 < 6.12.95)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.38)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 7.1.3)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/257595adf9dac15ae1edd9d07753fbc576a7583d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/73569a44fca2992f0ca4a4c0104069741b9873a0 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ba0b9f04c7a5f9887b8ce672eaf049502c0548ec Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e91df6d273445c03f5aa302bfe147eda33d45794 Patch