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CVE-2026-98772: USB: serial: fix port tear down use-after-free

• Severity: unknown
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-10-18 · updated 2026-10-30

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: USB: serial: fix port tear down use-after-free Some drivers for multiport devices access port driver data from completion handlers of shared URBs submitted at attach() or first open() and stopped at disconnect() or last close(), respectively. A simple NULL check before accessing the driver data makes sure that a port state container has at least been allocated, but a completion handler can still race with port tear down. Reorder the disconnect handling so that ports are not deregistered (and their driver data freed) until after all ports have been hung up and the driver disconnect() callback has run so that all I/O has been stopped.

Affected products

• Linux: 2.6.30 — fixed in 7.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux 7.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/33c920f7c5952dfc42d1b8ea6efe16b1f0bb0c5b
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5e8980a81af195c49084be5b4c031085b56c7443
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/60cc9379c3e650d1ebfba4de63f1242537a62a32
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8ed69d299b9d7872f911f089e00cdd2ea6969d2c
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/94601d83fc4811485ca6fb1d50bece589fe1c24d
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bf296d7b75bfd49dc519ad0406e89ddc5c3f02e3
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e4a6883ad9b4686a5f4bd90ff55a44d7ab65bd3c
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e80ee74206f260eb1282e7d1339ff146a4a410d0

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