CVE-2026-68181 PUBLISHED

mei: bus: access mei_device under device_lock on cleanup

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 30.07.2026 Published: 10.08.2026 Updated: 10.08.2026

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

mei: bus: access mei_device under device_lock on cleanup

Fix couple of problems in mei_cl_bus_dev_release():

mei_cl_flush_queues() is running without lock. bus->file_list access after mei_dev_bus_put(bus) can become a use-after-free if this was the last reference to bus.

Protect queues cleanup and WARN traversal by device lock there to avoid the concurrent access problems. Move WARN traversal before mei_dev_bus_put(bus).

This file uses bus variable name for mei_device, adjust code of mei_cl_bus_dev_release() to use bus variable too.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 24f4ceeaeee7983c07590149556a0e33efe2ec90 to 441559d4c595f839b39f0ab6a4ae628427c2fd9e (excl.)
  • affected from 612c8d21ce6e37b73f3106aec7ffa35959d40261 to c88c030a324c9018b77894a19b2564eb66862020 (excl.)
  • affected from 35e8a426b16adbecae7a4e0e3c00fc8d0273db53 to 59dd34854202d9a3faaa87a85205e553fe7150e1 (excl.)
  • affected from 35e8a426b16adbecae7a4e0e3c00fc8d0273db53 to 7cf79e8d682fe93777268f029668ce5e214237fd (excl.)
  • affected from 35e8a426b16adbecae7a4e0e3c00fc8d0273db53 to f112ea910e554d58b4b39a4492b7d302f0f4204f (excl.)
  • Version 6f2a6ef86b23a30b92ad57981de537bce67bfa45 is affected
  • Version 2f29dce5a5ae06a7db32e4491d72269329a86eeb is affected
  • Version 28de6ca5276a94b0589ae1bf026b89fa0eaf14c0 is affected
  • affected from 6.6.103 to 6.6.148 (excl.)
  • affected from 6.12.43 to 6.12.101 (excl.)
  • affected from 6.1.149 to 6.2 (excl.)
  • affected from 6.15.11 to 6.16 (excl.)
  • affected from 6.16.2 to 6.17 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.17 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.17 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.148 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.101 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.42 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1.6 to 7.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2-rc5 to * (incl.)

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