Bug 2528642 (CVE-2026-80824)

Summary: CVE-2026-80824 kernel: usb: usbfs: fix use-after-free of usb_device in usbdev_release()
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Version: unspecifiedCC: akhatavk, aos-team-art-private, asdas, dpaolell, jdelft, jupierce, lgarciaa, mbiarnes, ppalepu, ppostler, prdhamdh, rhel-process-autobot, sghai, sidsharm, suppawar, vlaad, watson-tool-maintainers
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A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's USB subsystem (usbfs). An unprivileged local attacker with read/write access to a /dev/bus/usb node could exploit a use-after-free vulnerability. This occurs because the usb_device structure is prematurely freed before all pending operations are completed. Successful exploitation of this memory corruption flaw could lead to a system crash or potentially privilege escalation.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-04 16:08:22 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

usb: usbfs: fix use-after-free of usb_device in usbdev_release()

usbdev_release() drops its reference to the struct usb_device before
draining the list of completed async URBs, but that drain path reads back
through the same object: free_async() calls dec_usb_memory_use_count()
for any URB whose buffer came from the usbfs mmap() region, and its first
statement is bus_to_hcd(ps->dev->bus).

After a disconnect the usbfs reference can be the last one, in which case
usb_put_dev() frees the device and the subsequent loop reads offset 80 of
freed memory and uses the result as a struct usb_hcd *, which
hcd_buffer_free_pages() then dereferences.

This is reachable by an unprivileged process that has read/write access to
a /dev/bus/usb node: mmap() the fd, submit one URB with a buffer inside the
mapping, wait for the device to be unplugged, then munmap() and close().
It reproduces on every attempt rather than being a race, because a live
MAP_SHARED vma holds a reference on the struct file, so usbdev_release()
cannot run until the last vma is gone and the freeing branch of
dec_usb_memory_use_count() is always taken.

  BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in dec_usb_memory_use_count+0x3ae/0x410
  Read of size 8 at addr ffff8880122ee050 by task poc/769
  CPU: 1 UID: 1000 PID: 769 Comm: poc Tainted: G    B    6.12.94 #3

  Call Trace:
   dec_usb_memory_use_count+0x3ae/0x410
   free_async+0x2aa/0x4f0
   usbdev_release+0x375/0x460
   __fput+0x3ea/0xb50
   __x64_sys_close+0x86/0x100

  Allocated by task 11:
   usb_alloc_dev+0x55/0xd90
   hub_event+0x2524/0x43d0

  Freed by task 769:
   kfree+0x121/0x360
   device_release+0xd2/0x280
   usb_put_dev+0x23/0x30
   usbdev_release+0x2d8/0x460

Release the device reference after the drain loop instead. Nothing between
the two points requires it to have been dropped.