CVE-2026-98773 PUBLISHED

USB: cdc-acm: skip URB restart in port_shutdown if disconnected

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: 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.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 603d5a7110832e10165d21f9a1486399457177de to 9742905d9ed5bf23ebe4c100dec80b6bc50fb522 (excl.)
  • affected from 5d29d7ff8679e5a525f22da467ba33c042e8029b to a0ed07b5bbb2d8fcef86810453216070691816e7 (excl.)
  • affected from f58752ebcb35e156c85cd1a82d6579c7af3b9023 to 420ca35af891d33522cc08504768ccd60a4c450a (excl.)
  • affected from f58752ebcb35e156c85cd1a82d6579c7af3b9023 to dc614d6bc991740d41d5a99ac7765c4b675dda88 (excl.)
  • Version d826061aa64cb28089bf4c73e301dd7928662b84 is affected
  • Version 8fb82e3555a7d56a05d8ef0edee9859f889c0860 is affected
  • Version 283f8162cc3c82086537cbc7dc01870dbeb07a91 is affected
  • Version f77f10bc76c2da86b4248269472f6d971e37828b is affected
  • affected from 6.12.83 to 6.12.113 (excl.)
  • affected from 6.18.24 to 6.18.56 (excl.)
  • affected from 6.1.175 to 6.2 (excl.)
  • affected from 6.6.136 to 6.7 (excl.)
  • affected from 6.19.14 to 6.20 (excl.)
  • affected from 7.0.1 to 7.1 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 7.1 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 7.1 (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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