CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-46285

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.13%

3th percentile - higher than 3% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the MTD docg3 driver in the Linux kernel, there is a use-after-free vulnerability in docg3_release(). The docg3 pointer is used after memory is freed, leading to a dangling pointer dereference.

Risk Assessment

The vulnerability could lead to system crash or potentially privilege escalation through access to freed kernel memory.

Recommendation

Apply the Linux kernel patch that fixes the issue by directly accessing cascade->bch instead of through the freed pointer.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mtd: docg3: fix use-after-free in docg3_release() In docg3_release(), the docg3 pointer is obtained from cascade->floors[0]->priv before the loop that calls doc_release_device() on each floor. doc_release_device() frees the docg3 struct via kfree(docg3) at line 1881. After the loop, docg3->cascade->bch dereferences the already-freed pointer. Fix this by accessing cascade->bch directly, which is equivalent since docg3->cascade points back to the same cascade struct, and is already available as a local variable. This also removes the now-unused docg3 local variable.

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