CVE-2025-68781

usb: phy: fsl-usb: Fix use-after-free in delayed work during device removal

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Jan 13, 2026
Updated
Sep 2, 2026
Reserved
Dec 24, 2025

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Description

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

usb: phy: fsl-usb: Fix use-after-free in delayed work during device removal

The delayed work item otg_event is initialized in fsl_otg_conf() and scheduled under two conditions: 1. When a host controller binds to the OTG controller. 2. When the USB ID pin state changes (cable insertion/removal).

A race condition occurs when the device is removed via fsl_otg_remove(): the fsl_otg instance may be freed while the delayed work is still pending or executing. This leads to use-after-free when the work function fsl_otg_event() accesses the already freed memory.

The problematic scenario:

(detach thread) | (delayed work) fsl_otg_remove() | kfree(fsl_otg_dev) //FREE| fsl_otg_event() | og = container_of(...) //USE | og-> //USE

Fix this by calling disable_delayed_work_sync() in fsl_otg_remove() before deallocating the fsl_otg structure. This ensures the delayed work is properly canceled and completes execution prior to memory deallocation.

This bug was identified through static analysis.

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 0807c500a1a6d7fa20cbd7bbe7fea14a66112463 to before 69f9a0701abc3d1f8225074c56c27e6c16a37222Affected
  • 0807c500a1a6d7fa20cbd7bbe7fea14a66112463 to before 2e7c47e2eb3cfeadf78a1ccbac8492c60d508f23Affected
  • 0807c500a1a6d7fa20cbd7bbe7fea14a66112463 to before 41ca62e3e21e48c2903b3b45e232cf4f2ff7434fAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 3.0Affected
  • before 3.0Not affected
  • 6.12.64 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.3 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 6.19 and laterNot affected

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