CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-98773
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-10-18
- Last modified
- 2026-10-21
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
USB: cdc-acm: skip URB restart in port_shutdown if disconnected
acm_port_shutdown() is called from the tty-port machinery whenever the
last user closes the port. acm_disconnect() sets acm->disconnected and
calls tty_port_tty_vhangup(), which eventually triggers port_shutdown().
At that point acm_disconnect() has already called acm_poison_urbs() and
is about to free the control and read URBs.
However, acm_port_shutdown() unconditionally calls acm_unpoison_urbs()
and, when the ALWAYS_POLL_CTRL quirk is set, immediately re-submits the
ctrlurb and all read URBs. If the concurrent acm_disconnect() then
frees those URBs and their DMA buffers while they are in-flight, the
result is a use-after-free in acm_ctrl_irq() or acm_read_bulk_callback()
accessing the freed DMA memory.
Fix by checking acm->disconnected after draining the delayed anchor and
returning early: if we are in a disconnect path the URBs must remain
poisoned and must not be resubmitted.
The early return is placed after the delayed-anchor drain loop because
that loop only cancels write-side accounting (wb->use = false and
autopm counter) and does not touch the hardware path.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/420ca35af891d33522cc08504768ccd60a4c450a git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9742905d9ed5bf23ebe4c100dec80b6bc50fb522 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a0ed07b5bbb2d8fcef86810453216070691816e7 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d86775e79838d7d2e38ccf506a7d0f8e2dd4d5d0 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dc614d6bc991740d41d5a99ac7765c4b675dda88 git.kernel.org