media: hackrf: fix to not free memory after the device is registered in hackrf_probe() (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-31576
HIGH 7.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.13 % · percentile 2 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Modified

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: media: hackrf: fix to not free memory after the device is registered in hackrf_probe() In hackrf driver, the following race condition occurs: ``` CPU0 CPU1 hackrf_probe() kzalloc(); // alloc hackrf_dev .... v4l2_device_register(); .... fd = sys_open("/path/to/dev"); // open hackrf fd .... v4l2_device_unregister(); .... kfree(); // free hackrf_dev .... sys_ioctl(fd, ...); v4l2_ioctl(); video_is_registered() // UAF!! .... sys_close(fd); v4l2_release() // UAF!! hackrf_video_release() kfree(); // DFB!! ``` When a V4L2 or video device is unregistered, the device node is removed so new open() calls are blocked. However, file descriptors that are already open-and any in-flight I/O-do not terminate immediately; they remain valid until the last reference is dropped and the driver's release() is invoked. Therefore, freeing device memory on the error path after hackrf_probe() has registered dev it will lead to a race to use-after-free vuln, since those already-open handles haven't been released yet. And since release() free memory too, race to use-after-free and double-free vuln occur. To prevent this, if device is registered from probe(), it should be modified to free memory only through release() rather than calling kfree() directly.

Weaknesses (CWE)

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 8bc4a9ed85046c214458c9e82aea75d2f46cfffd < 87b9685cca91ed715c39ba544715832d26a7f4b4 ; affected 8bc4a9ed85046c214458c9e82aea75d2f46cfffd < 131ec9046e1c8af101aebdaec4e8095e05f3312b ; affected 8bc4a9ed85046c214458c9e82aea75d2f46cfffd < 67fd62e3efdc9dce01f76d95a745212f4feb38e6 ; affected 8bc4a9ed85046c214458c9e82aea75d2f46cfffd < 45cbaf5c7cdc5386d86377f0daf94a17a007fed0 ; affected 8bc4a9ed85046c214458c9e82aea75d2f46cfffd < 98a0a81ce78020c2522e0046f49d200de9778cb9 ; affected 8bc4a9ed85046c214458c9e82aea75d2f46cfffd < 07e9e674b6146b1f6fc41b1f54b8968bf2802824
Linux · Linuxaffected 4.4 ; unaffected 0 < 4.4 ; unaffected 5.10.258 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.209 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.175 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.136 ≤ 6.6.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD