published September 4, 2026
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
usb: usbfs: fix use-after-free of usb_device in usbdev_release()
usbdev_release() drops its reference to the struct usb_device before
draining the list of completed async URBs, but that drain path reads back
through the same object: free_async() calls dec_usb_memory_use_count()
for any URB whose buffer came from the usbfs mmap() region, and its first
statement is bus_to_hcd(ps->dev->bus).
After a disconnect the usbfs reference can be the last one, in which case
usb_put_dev() frees the device and the subsequent loop reads offset 80 of
freed memory and uses the result as a struct usb_hcd *, which
hcd_buffer_free_pages() then dereferences.
This is reachable by an unprivileged process that has read/write access to
a /dev/bus/usb node: mmap() the fd, submit one URB with a buffer inside the
mapping, wait for the device to be unplugged, then munmap() and close().
It reproduces on every attempt rather than being a race, because a live
MAP_SHARED vma holds a reference on the struct file, so usbdev_release()
cannot run until the last vma is gone and the freeing branch of
dec_usb_memory_use_count() is always taken.
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in dec_usb_memory_use_count+0x3ae/0x410
Read of size 8 at addr ffff8880122ee050 by task poc/769
CPU: 1 UID: 1000 PID: 769 Comm: poc Tainted: G B 6.12.94 #3
Call Trace:
dec_usb_memory_use_count+0x3ae/0x410
free_async+0x2aa/0x4f0
usbdev_release+0x375/0x460
__fput+0x3ea/0xb50
__x64_sys_close+0x86/0x100
Allocated by task 11:
usb_alloc_dev+0x55/0xd90
hub_event+0x2524/0x43d0
Freed by task 769:
kfree+0x121/0x360
device_release+0xd2/0x280
usb_put_dev+0x23/0x30
usbdev_release+0x2d8/0x460
Release the device reference after the drain loop instead. Nothing between
the two points requires it to have been dropped.