CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-97582

Unknown
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the gpio-fan hwmon driver has a use-after-free in alarm work. The queued alarm work is not cancelled, and after unbind it may run after memory is freed.

Risk Assessment

Use-after-free can lead to system crash or potential arbitrary code execution.

Recommendation

Apply the Linux kernel patch that uses devm_work_autocancel() and registers it before the interrupt, cancelling the work before resources are freed.

Other vulnerabilities in Linux kernel

See all
Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hwmon: (gpio-fan) Fix use-after-free in alarm work fan_alarm_irq_handler() queues fan_data->alarm_work, but nothing cancels it. fan_alarm_notify() dereferences fan_data and its hwmon device. On unbind, devres frees the interrupt, which only waits for the handler itself, and then releases the hwmon device and fan_data, so a pending fan_alarm_notify() can run after those frees. Replace INIT_WORK() with devm_work_autocancel(), registered before devm_request_irq(). The devres cleanup then frees the interrupt first, so no new work can be queued, and cancels the work while fan_data and the hwmon device are still alive. This issue was found by an in-house static analysis tool.

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