Back to CVE List

CVE-2026-64340

Vulnerability Description

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

USB: legousbtower: fix use-after-free on disconnect race

mutex_unlock() may access the mutex structure after releasing the lock
and therefore cannot be used to manage lifetime of objects directly
(unlike spinlocks and refcounts). [1][2]

Use a kref to release the driver data to avoid use-after-free in
mutex_unlock() when release() races with disconnect().

[1] a51749ab34d9 ("locking/mutex: Document that mutex_unlock() is
non-atomic")
[2] 2b9d9e0a9ba0 ("locking/mutex: Clarify that mutex_unlock(), and most
other sleeping locks, can still use the lock object
after it's unlocked")

Vulnerability Details

Published Date
Last Modified
Source
NVD
Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux

External References

Discussion (0)

Add Comment

No comments yet. Be the first!