CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-64372

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 pcc cpufreq driver, a use-after-free and double free were found during _OSC evaluation. After the first acpi_evaluate_object() call, the output buffer is freed but pointer and length are not reset, causing a write to freed memory on the second call.

Risk Assessment

The vulnerability may lead to kernel memory corruption, which could be exploited for privilege escalation or system destabilization.

Recommendation

Apply the patch that resets output.pointer to NULL and output.length to ACPI_ALLOCATE_BUFFER after freeing the first result.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: cpufreq: pcc: fix use-after-free and double free in _OSC evaluation pcc_cpufreq_do_osc() calls acpi_evaluate_object() twice for the two-phase _OSC negotiation. Between the two calls it freed output.pointer but left output.length unchanged. Since acpi_evaluate_object() treats a non-zero length with a non-NULL pointer as an existing buffer to write into, the second call wrote into freed memory (use-after-free). The subsequent kfree(output.pointer) at out_free then freed the same pointer a second time (double free). Reset output.pointer to NULL and output.length to ACPI_ALLOCATE_BUFFER after freeing the first result, so ACPICA allocates a fresh buffer for each phase independently.

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