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CVE-2026-31578

media: as102: fix to not free memory after the device is registered in as102_usb_probe()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

media: as102: fix to not free memory after the device is registered in as102_usb_probe()

In as102_usb driver, the following race condition occurs:
```
		CPU0						CPU1
as102_usb_probe()
  kzalloc(); // alloc as102_dev_t
  ....
  usb_register_dev();
						fd = sys_open("/path/to/dev"); // open as102 fd
						....
  usb_deregister_dev();
  ....
  kfree(); // free as102_dev_t
  ....
						sys_close(fd);
						  as102_release() // UAF!!
						    as102_usb_release()
						      kfree(); // DFB!!
```

When a USB character device registered with usb_register_dev() is later
unregistered (via usb_deregister_dev() or disconnect), the device node is
removed so new open() calls fail. However, file descriptors that are
already open do not go away immediately: they remain valid until the last
reference is dropped and the driver's .release() is invoked.

In as102, as102_usb_probe() calls usb_register_dev() and then, on an
error path, does usb_deregister_dev() and frees as102_dev_t right away.
If userspace raced a successful open() before the deregistration, that
open FD will later hit as102_release() --> as102_usb_release() and access
or free as102_dev_t again, occur a race to use-after-free and
double-free vuln.

The fix is to never kfree(as102_dev_t) directly once usb_register_dev()
has succeeded. After deregistration, defer freeing memory to .release().

In other words, let release() perform the last kfree when the final open
FD is closed.
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LinuxLinux Kernel Version < 6.6.136
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.7 < 6.12.83
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.13 < 6.18.24
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.19 < 6.19.14
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 7.0 < 7.0.1
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CVSS Metriken
Quelle Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector String
nvd@nist.gov 7.8 1.8 5.9
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE-416 Use After Free

The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.