usb: gadget: at91_udc: drain polled-VBUS timer/work before udc is freed
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Local
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- Partial Red Hat: 1 without a fix
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat.
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: usb: gadget: at91_udc: drain polled-VBUS timer/work before udc is freed In polled-VBUS mode (board.vbus_pin && board.vbus_polled), probe arms a self-restarting cycle: at91_vbus_timer() schedules vbus_timer_work, and at91_vbus_timer_work() calls at91_vbus_update() and re-arms the timer via mod_timer(). Both recover the same udc through container_of and dereference it on every iteration. Neither teardown path cancels this cycle. udc is devm-allocated, so it is freed after at91udc_remove() returns, and is likewise freed when probe fails and devres runs. A timer callback or work item that is pending or running at either point dereferences the freed udc. Add at91_udc_shutdown_vbus_timer() and call it from at91udc_remove() and from the usb_add_gadget_udc() failure path in probe; the remaining probe error paths fail before the timer is armed. timer_shutdown_sync() waits for a running callback and clears timer->function, which makes the work handler's mod_timer() a permanent no-op; cancel_work_sync() then drains any pending or running work whose re-arm attempt now does nothing. The timer must be shut down first, since cancelling the work alone would let the timer re-queue it. The guard mirrors probe: in IRQ mode the timer and work_struct are never initialized. This does not require a fault; a normal driver unbind can interleave with an already queued work item. This issue was found by an in-house static analysis tool.
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 5.15.224, 6.1.191, 6.6.160, 6.12.109, 6.18.50, 7.2.4, 7.3
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
| Product | Status | Plan or fix |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
Not affected: 6 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
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-89738
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-3f57-g7j5-hj3q
- 2026-10-19 Fix available: Linux/[email protected] · CNA
- 2026-10-21 Fix available: Linux/[email protected], Linux/Linux@723d73b245843d4fff4c3f42e857c78c2b2d414e · CNA
- 2026-10-21 1 new reference · CNA
- 2026-10-30 Fix available: Linux/Linux@1674e34fe61ad3f5585dc833ba6bb6522912e6a5, Linux/Linux@2440ce54b8c4c8aa6963c181eb56164a466fbe1c, Linux/[email protected] +1 · CNA
- 2026-10-30 2 new references · CNA
- 2026-10-30 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
References
Other 7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2440ce54b8c4c8aa6963c181eb56164a466fbe1c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1674e34fe61ad3f5585dc833ba6bb6522912e6a5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/723d73b245843d4fff4c3f42e857c78c2b2d414e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a2a602cb1e28d76a5398cec3fa21b0110385f501
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/51a311eb97e91ce1aed3005cb71ccb2e30f8cce8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/557ef547d49ff5e6026a4d39bdd3113bd81d7688
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c27d13ce4bab80fbdf6523928071b6c24b37606c
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Sources
- CVE-2026-89738 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-89738 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-3f57-g7j5-hj3q · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-89738 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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