CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-93054
7.0 HIGH
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- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-09-17
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.0 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
uio: Fix stale info pointer in failed registration path
After device_add(), the UIO device is visible to userspace and /dev/uioX
can be opened. If a later setup step fails, __uio_register_device()
unwinds the device but leaves idev->info pointing at the caller-owned
struct uio_info.
That is unsafe when an opener races with the failed registration path.
The open file keeps a reference to the uio_device, while the caller sees
registration failure and may free its struct uio_info. Later file
operations can then follow idev->info and dereference freed memory.
Handle post-device_add() failures like unregister: remove UIO attributes
while the info pointer is still valid, then clear idev->info under
info_lock and wake existing waiters/async users before removing the
device and minor. This makes already-open file descriptors observe the
same "device gone" state as normal uio_unregister_device().
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/15340b00e665af805523b08515294a1aa1778151 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/16695e9059d80ea6661e8399064b0c01f641dd8c git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/234156f6c6d9ec35dc47abbcc3adc3c79fc6a5ac git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/506b43dde5f9ac0068b1360e6b5dbee07fda59fb git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/63eaa7663335d482a8825c231213e312cacea567 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/67b6fc084b034a91c3ec7907a3fed89a2450f30b git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/df4faf65194ec6c315a59be4c6749eaeb3009243 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ec5bd6731183eb6f619140c9bef2ee11ed818c20 git.kernel.org