CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-45902

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.21%

11th percentile - higher than 11% of all known CVEs

Summary

A use-after-free vulnerability in the power_supply_changed() function has been fixed in the Linux kernel. The issue arose from improper ordering of allocation and registration of the power supply handle, leading to a race condition where the interrupt handler could be invoked with a freed handle.

Risk Assessment

This vulnerability could cause system crashes or silent memory corruption, posing a serious threat to system stability and security.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update the Linux kernel to a version that includes the fix to ensure that the IRQ is requested after the registration of the power supply handle.

Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: power: supply: bq256xx: Fix use-after-free in power_supply_changed() Using the `devm_` variant for requesting IRQ _before_ the `devm_` variant for allocating/registering the `power_supply` handle, means that the `power_supply` handle will be deallocated/unregistered _before_ the interrupt handler (since `devm_` naturally deallocates in reverse allocation order). This means that during removal, there is a race condition where an interrupt can fire just _after_ the `power_supply` handle has been freed, *but* just _before_ the corresponding unregistration of the IRQ handler has run. This will lead to the IRQ handler calling `power_supply_changed()` with a freed `power_supply` handle. Which usually crashes the system or otherwise silently corrupts the memory... Note that there is a similar situation which can also happen during `probe()`; the possibility of an interrupt firing _before_ registering the `power_supply` handle. This would then lead to the nasty situation of using the `power_supply` handle *uninitialized* in `power_supply_changed()`. Fix this racy use-after-free by making sure the IRQ is requested _after_ the registration of the `power_supply` handle.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS