CVE-2026-98772 PUBLISHED

USB: serial: fix port tear down use-after-free

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 25.09.2026 Published: 18.10.2026 Updated: 18.10.2026

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

USB: serial: fix port tear down use-after-free

Some drivers for multiport devices access port driver data from completion handlers of shared URBs submitted at attach() or first open() and stopped at disconnect() or last close(), respectively.

A simple NULL check before accessing the driver data makes sure that a port state container has at least been allocated, but a completion handler can still race with port tear down.

Reorder the disconnect handling so that ports are not deregistered (and their driver data freed) until after all ports have been hung up and the driver disconnect() callback has run so that all I/O has been stopped.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 2d93148ab6988cad872e65d694c95e8944e1b626 to 60cc9379c3e650d1ebfba4de63f1242537a62a32 (excl.)
  • affected from 2d93148ab6988cad872e65d694c95e8944e1b626 to 5e8980a81af195c49084be5b4c031085b56c7443 (excl.)
  • affected from 2d93148ab6988cad872e65d694c95e8944e1b626 to e80ee74206f260eb1282e7d1339ff146a4a410d0 (excl.)
  • affected from 2d93148ab6988cad872e65d694c95e8944e1b626 to 33c920f7c5952dfc42d1b8ea6efe16b1f0bb0c5b (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 2.6.30 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 2.6.30 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.113 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.56 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.10 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc6 to * (incl.)

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