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high7.8

CVE-2026-64340

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: USB: legousbtower: fix use-after-free on disconnect race mutex_unlock() may access the mute…

Impact

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: USB: legousbtower: fix use-after-free on disconnect race mutex_unlock() may access the mutex structure after releasing the lock and therefore cannot be used to manage lifetime of objects directly (unlike spinlocks and refcounts). [1][2] Use a kref to release the driver data to avoid use-after-free in mutex_unlock() when release() races with disconnect(). [1] a51749ab34d9 ("locking/mutex: Document that mutex_unlock() is non-atomic") [2] 2b9d9e0a9ba0 ("locking/mutex: Clarify that mutex_unlock(), and most other sleeping locks, can still use the lock object after it's unlocked")

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
LinuxLinux Kernel
from 2.6.25 before 5.10.261
from 5.11 before 5.15.212
from 5.16 before 6.1.178
from 6.2 before 6.6.145
from 6.7 before 6.12.96
from 6.13 before 6.18.39

Weakness classification

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