CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-89899
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-09-16
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- 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
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: cec: disable delayed work before freeing an interrupted transmit
cec_transmit_msg_fh() drops adap->lock to wait for a blocking transmit in
wait_for_completion_killable(). If that wait is interrupted by a signal,
cancel_delayed_work_sync() can run before the CEC kthread arms the reply
timeout via schedule_delayed_work(&data->work) in cec_transmit_done_ts().
The work is then armed after the cancel, and the data is freed with its
delayed_work still pending:
ODEBUG: free active (active state 0) object: ... hint: cec_wait_timeout
Use disable_delayed_work_sync(): it cancels the work and disables it, so
the later schedule_delayed_work() becomes a no-op and the work cannot be
re-armed. The data is freed right after, so it need not be re-enabled.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0fbd5c2327020858c45b2d1c65775d64cdeca523 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9a951931d4b4084acd64fa55fc3672a9da45ddf9 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9c6ceb0949227c1f0cf0e19393daec72d9889871 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a3adb63b121937b97f7fdc51e96564c7c799538b git.kernel.org