CVE-2026-64372 PUBLISHED

cpufreq: pcc: fix use-after-free and double free in _OSC evaluation

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 19.07.2026 Published: 25.07.2026 Updated: 25.07.2026

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

cpufreq: pcc: fix use-after-free and double free in _OSC evaluation

pcc_cpufreq_do_osc() calls acpi_evaluate_object() twice for the two-phase _OSC negotiation. Between the two calls it freed output.pointer but left output.length unchanged. Since acpi_evaluate_object() treats a non-zero length with a non-NULL pointer as an existing buffer to write into, the second call wrote into freed memory (use-after-free). The subsequent kfree(output.pointer) at out_free then freed the same pointer a second time (double free).

Reset output.pointer to NULL and output.length to ACPI_ALLOCATE_BUFFER after freeing the first result, so ACPICA allocates a fresh buffer for each phase independently.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0f1d683fb35d6c6f49ef696c95757f3970682a0e to 8e454e9d0bc03446d610ee49abec9dfd424f6541 (excl.)
  • affected from 0f1d683fb35d6c6f49ef696c95757f3970682a0e to 632666a63116d8061c62a988d1ca39dcd6d27c9b (excl.)
  • affected from 0f1d683fb35d6c6f49ef696c95757f3970682a0e to 5cdb25f144b101083d8bf3fd023ad87fbe6850d7 (excl.)
  • affected from 0f1d683fb35d6c6f49ef696c95757f3970682a0e to 982c9f92d57bda2b769851ff6d90d43dcf5f3734 (excl.)
  • affected from 0f1d683fb35d6c6f49ef696c95757f3970682a0e to a36ca93a8ba57464e521d70a337d37f069064111 (excl.)
  • affected from 0f1d683fb35d6c6f49ef696c95757f3970682a0e to 6ba6f6783be2ffeb2cbcdc9321c4b9f708f796f7 (excl.)
  • affected from 0f1d683fb35d6c6f49ef696c95757f3970682a0e to 0e3c739a2f6fc1de5b19a8839ab80696b9cb2a29 (excl.)
  • affected from 0f1d683fb35d6c6f49ef696c95757f3970682a0e to 266d3dd8b757b48a576e90f018b51f7b7563cc32 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 2.6.34 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 2.6.34 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 5.10.261 to 5.10.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 5.15.212 to 5.15.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.178 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.145 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.96 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.39 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1.4 to 7.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2-rc1 to * (incl.)

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