Bug 2502453 (CVE-2026-63905) - CVE-2026-63905 kernel: usbip: vudc: Fix use after free bug in vudc_remove due to race condition
Summary: CVE-2026-63905 kernel: usbip: vudc: Fix use after free bug in vudc_remove due...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-63905
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-07-19 16:09 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-07-21 13:56 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-07-19 16:09:01 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

usbip: vudc: Fix use after free bug in vudc_remove due to race condition

This patch follows up Zheng Wang's 2023 report of a use-after-free in
vudc_remove(). The original thread stalled on Shuah Khan's request for
runtime testing of the unplug/unbind path. This patch supplies that
testing and keeps Zheng's original fix shape.

In vudc_probe(), v_init_timer() binds udc->tr_timer.timer to v_timer().
usbip_sockfd_store() starts the timer via v_start_timer()/v_kick_timer().
vudc_remove() can then free the containing struct vudc while the timer is
still pending or executing.

KASAN confirms the race on an unpatched x86_64 QEMU guest with
CONFIG_KASAN=y, CONFIG_USBIP_VUDC=y, CONFIG_USB_ZERO=y, and a tight loop
that repeatedly writes a socket fd to usbip_sockfd, closes the socket
pair, and unbinds/rebinds usbip-vudc.0:

  BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __run_timer_base.part.0+0x8ba/0x8e0
  Write of size 8 at addr ffff888001b80740 by task trigger_and_unb/239
  Allocated by task 239:
    vudc_probe+0x4d/0xaa0
  Freed by task 239:
    kfree+0x18f/0x520
    device_release_driver_internal+0x388/0x540
    unbind_store+0xd9/0x100

This lands in the timer core rather than v_timer() itself because the
embedded timer_list is being walked after its containing struct vudc has
already been freed. The underlying lifetime bug is the same one Zheng
reported.

With v_stop_timer() called from vudc_remove() and the timer deleted
synchronously, the same harness completed 5000 bind/unbind iterations
with no KASAN report.

Comment 1 Mauro Matteo Cascella 2026-07-21 13:53:35 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2026071944-CVE-2026-63905-909d@gregkh/T


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