CVE-2026-81008

Status: UPDATED  |  Advisory ID: CVE-2026-81008

Key Details

Affected Products, Subsystems & Sectors

What to Know

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

interconnect: Fix use after free in icc_get() and of_icc_get_by_index()

In of_icc_get_by_index() and icc_get(), if the dynamic allocation for

path->name fails via kasprintf(), the error handling path directly

calls kfree(path) to free the path object and returns an error.

However, prior to this point, path_find() calls path_init(), which

already links the path's requests into the req_list of the respective

interconnect nodes via hlist_add_head(). Directly invoking kfree(path)

leaves dangling pointers in the hlist. A subsequent call to icc_get()

or icc_set_bw() will traverse or modify these corrupted lists, triggering

a slab use afterfree.

KASAN report showing the vulnerability when reproducing via debugfs:

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in path_find+0x6f8/0xcfc

Write of size 8 at addr fff000000d43f748 by task sh/1

...

Call trace:

kasan_report+0xac/0xfc

path_find+0x6f8/0xcfc

icc_get+0x148/0x380

icc_get_set+0xf8/0x2d0

...

Freed by task 1:

kfree+0x1a0/0x4a4

icc_get+0x2cc/0x380

icc_get_set+0xf8/0x2d0

Fix this by replacing kfree(path) with the proper teardown function,

icc_put(path), which safely removes the requests from the req_list using

hlist_del() and drops the provider usage references before freeing the

memory.

Additionally, in icc_get(), ensure that the icc_lock mutex is released

prior to calling icc_put(path) to avoid a deadlock, as icc_put()

internally acquires the same lock. (NVD)

What to Do

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

References