mailbox: mtk-adsp: fix UAF during device teardown
Key facts
- Attack vector
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- Privileges required
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- User interaction
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- Attack complexity
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- Impact type
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- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
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- Fix status
- Fixed
No CVSS vector from any source. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mailbox: mtk-adsp: fix UAF during device teardown When the SOF audio driver fails to initialize (e.g. firmware boot timeout), its devres unwind frees the snd_sof_dev object that the mailbox client (mtk-adsp-ipc) reaches via chan->cl->rx_callback. The mtk-adsp-mailbox shutdown clears the mailbox command registers but leaves the IRQ line unmasked, so a late interrupt can still queue a threaded handler after mbox_free_channel() had cleared chan->cl, and mbox_chan_received_data() would then trigger UAF: BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in sof_ipc3_validate_fw_version sof_ipc3_validate_fw_version sof_ipc3_do_rx_work sof_ipc3_rx_msg mt8196_dsp_handle_request mtk_adsp_ipc_recv mbox_chan_received_data mtk_adsp_mbox_isr irq_thread_fn Freed by task ...: kfree devres_release_all really_probe ... (sof-audio-of-mt8196 probe failure) The crash was observed roughly three seconds after the failed probe. disable_irq() in shutdown and enable_irq() in startup. disable_irq() also waits for any in-flight interrupts, so by the time mbox_free_channel() proceeds to clear chan->cl no rx_callback can run. In addition, request the IRQ with IRQF_NO_AUTOEN so it stays masked between probe and the first client bind — otherwise an early interrupt can crash on chan->cl == NULL in mbox_chan_received_data().
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 6.1.178, 6.6.145, 6.12.97, 6.18.40, 7.1.5, 7.2
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
Not affected: 5 products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-72486
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-7xg7-8g6q-847f
References
Other 6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b6337a08a63eef8efcffe3c01d479badda6bbbdb
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e519c1d8c5efb5cd8d4c5bb3fe39b1bbb812bdb9
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fc6c3deb1d4c0adebf7dee0b8af4082af3f17690
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7d881615fb6373f71fc628b3f00186aeca87a3d5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/25d6ea6c76e1b1b7c57337b2f8f1b6fc8d5c52bc
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b57d1a40bc43258372fa1f4d39305e093947a262
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Sources
- CVE-2026-72486 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-72486 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-7xg7-8g6q-847f · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-72486 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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