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CVE-2026-23158 (GCVE-0-2026-23158)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-02-14 16:01 – Updated: 2026-05-11 22:01
VLAI
Title
gpio: virtuser: fix UAF in configfs release path
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: gpio: virtuser: fix UAF in configfs release path The gpio-virtuser configfs release path uses guard(mutex) to protect the device structure. However, the device is freed before the guard cleanup runs, causing mutex_unlock() to operate on freed memory. Specifically, gpio_virtuser_device_config_group_release() destroys the mutex and frees the device while still inside the guard(mutex) scope. When the function returns, the guard cleanup invokes mutex_unlock(&dev->lock), resulting in a slab use-after-free. Limit the mutex lifetime by using a scoped_guard() only around the activation check, so that the lock is released before mutex_destroy() and kfree() are called.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 91581c4b3f29e2e22aeb1a62e842d529ca638b2d , < 815a8e3bf72811d402b30bd4a53cde5e9df7a563 (git)
Affected: 91581c4b3f29e2e22aeb1a62e842d529ca638b2d , < 7bec90f605cfb138006f5ba575f2310593347110 (git)
Affected: 91581c4b3f29e2e22aeb1a62e842d529ca638b2d , < 53ad4a948a4586359b841d607c08fb16c5503230 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.11
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.11 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.69 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.9 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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