CVE-2026-98773

USB: cdc-acm: skip URB restart in port_shutdown if disconnected

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Oct 18, 2026
Updated
Oct 30, 2026
Reserved
Sep 25, 2026

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Description

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

USB: cdc-acm: skip URB restart in port_shutdown if disconnected

acm_port_shutdown() is called from the tty-port machinery whenever the last user closes the port. acm_disconnect() sets acm->disconnected and calls tty_port_tty_vhangup(), which eventually triggers port_shutdown(). At that point acm_disconnect() has already called acm_poison_urbs() and is about to free the control and read URBs.

However, acm_port_shutdown() unconditionally calls acm_unpoison_urbs() and, when the ALWAYS_POLL_CTRL quirk is set, immediately re-submits the ctrlurb and all read URBs. If the concurrent acm_disconnect() then frees those URBs and their DMA buffers while they are in-flight, the result is a use-after-free in acm_ctrl_irq() or acm_read_bulk_callback() accessing the freed DMA memory.

Fix by checking acm->disconnected after draining the delayed anchor and returning early: if we are in a disconnect path the URBs must remain poisoned and must not be resubmitted.

The early return is placed after the delayed-anchor drain loop because that loop only cancels write-side accounting (wb->use = false and autopm counter) and does not touch the hardware path.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • d826061aa64cb28089bf4c73e301dd7928662b84 to before d97da42e9de577dc827d4e8866e6971deefe2d9cAffected
  • 8fb82e3555a7d56a05d8ef0edee9859f889c0860 to before d86775e79838d7d2e38ccf506a7d0f8e2dd4d5d0Affected
  • 603d5a7110832e10165d21f9a1486399457177de to before 9742905d9ed5bf23ebe4c100dec80b6bc50fb522Affected
  • 5d29d7ff8679e5a525f22da467ba33c042e8029b to before a0ed07b5bbb2d8fcef86810453216070691816e7Affected
  • f58752ebcb35e156c85cd1a82d6579c7af3b9023 to before 420ca35af891d33522cc08504768ccd60a4c450aAffected
  • f58752ebcb35e156c85cd1a82d6579c7af3b9023 to before dc614d6bc991740d41d5a99ac7765c4b675dda88Affected
  • 283f8162cc3c82086537cbc7dc01870dbeb07a91Affected
  • f77f10bc76c2da86b4248269472f6d971e37828bAffected
  • 6.1.175 to before 6.1.191Affected
  • 6.6.136 to before 6.6.160Affected
  • 6.12.83 to before 6.12.113Affected
  • 6.18.24 to before 6.18.56Affected
  • 6.19.14 to before 6.20Affected
  • 7.0.1 to before 7.1Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 7.1Affected
  • before 7.1Not affected
  • 6.1.191 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.160 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.113 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.56 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.2.10 through 7.2.*Not affected
  • 7.3 and laterNot affected

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