7.8

CVE-2026-45946

power: supply: ab8500: Fix use-after-free in power_supply_changed()

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

power: supply: ab8500: Fix use-after-free in power_supply_changed()

Using the `devm_` variant for requesting IRQ _before_ the `devm_`
variant for allocating/registering the `power_supply` handle, means that
the `power_supply` handle will be deallocated/unregistered _before_ the
interrupt handler (since `devm_` naturally deallocates in reverse
allocation order). This means that during removal, there is a race
condition where an interrupt can fire just _after_ the `power_supply`
handle has been freed, *but* just _before_ the corresponding
unregistration of the IRQ handler has run.

This will lead to the IRQ handler calling `power_supply_changed()` with
a freed `power_supply` handle. Which usually crashes the system or
otherwise silently corrupts the memory...

Note that there is a similar situation which can also happen during
`probe()`; the possibility of an interrupt firing _before_ registering
the `power_supply` handle. This would then lead to the nasty situation
of using the `power_supply` handle *uninitialized* in
`power_supply_changed()`.

Commit 1c1f13a006ed ("power: supply: ab8500: Move to componentized
binding") introduced this issue during a refactorization. Fix this racy
use-after-free by making sure the IRQ is requested _after_ the
registration of the `power_supply` handle.
Daten sind bereitgestellt durch National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.13.4 < 5.15.202
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.16 < 6.1.165
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.2 < 6.6.128
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.7 < 6.12.75
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.13 < 6.18.14
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.19 < 6.19.4
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EPSS Metriken
Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.16% 0.055
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 Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/43cbb78ee047b9b12d096d40e3be265969d4c1f8
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/551672981fe227122258a25a385a05f5c0746ad6
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f50433f2603def08b21a4bf2fd238687fb5cbde9
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/847eeb6c0efcd76c7def73857cf798a4fcd8f79b
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/709db4b476e254579d9c48ec34d397a41ca0c407
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/46dbda27b028d78087667e8280966b99cec015ca
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c4af8a98bb52825a5331ae1d0604c0ea6956ba4b
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