CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-46270

HighCVSS 8.4
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.02%

4th percentile - higher than 4% of all known CVEs

Summary

A vulnerability has been identified in the Linux kernel related to use-after-free in the power_supply_changed() function. This issue occurs when the power_supply handle is freed before the interrupt handler is registered, potentially leading to system crashes or memory corruption.

Risk Assessment

Organizations may experience serious stability issues, including crashes that could result in data loss or service downtime.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update the Linux kernel to the latest version to fix this vulnerability, ensuring that the IRQ is requested after the power_supply handle registration.

Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: power: supply: rt9455: 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