Linux Linux Kernel Use-After-Free Rated 7.8 CVSS

Status: UPDATED  |  Advisory ID: CVE-2026-53025

Key Details

Affected Products, Subsystems & Sectors

What to Know

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

greybus: raw: fix use-after-free on cdev close

This addresses a use-after-free bug when a raw bundle is disconnected

but its chardev is still opened by an application. When the application

releases the cdev, it causes the following panic when init on free is

enabled (CONFIG_INIT_ON_FREE_DEFAULT_ON=y):

refcount_t: underflow; use-after-free.

WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 139 at lib/refcount.c:28 refcount_warn_saturate+0xd0/0x130

...

Call Trace:

<TASK>

cdev_put+0x18/0x30

__fput+0x255/0x2a0

__x64_sys_close+0x3d/0x80

do_syscall_64+0xa4/0x290

entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

The cdev is contained in the "gb_raw" structure, which is freed in the

disconnect operation. When the cdev is released at a later time,

cdev_put gets an address that points to freed memory.

To fix this use-after-free, convert the struct device from a pointer to

being embedded, that makes the lifetime of the cdev and of this device

the same. Then, use cdev_device_add, which guarantees that the device

won't be released until all references to the cdev have been released.

Finally, delegate the freeing of the structure to the device release

function, instead of freeing immediately in the disconnect callback. (NVD)

What to Do

Monitor Linux's web page for any future patch releases.

References