CVE-2026-45902

HIGH

power: supply: bq256xx: Fix use-after-free in power_supply_changed()

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: power: supply: bq256xx: 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()`. Fix this racy use-after-free by making sure the IRQ is requested _after_ the registration of the `power_supply` handle.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0016
EPSS Percentile 5.5%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-416
Status published
Products (23)
linux/Kernel 5.12.0 - 5.15.202linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.165linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.18.14linux
linux/Kernel 6.19.0 - 6.19.4linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.128linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.75linux
Linux/Linux < 5.12
Linux/Linux 32e4978bb920d047fe5de3ea42d176f267c01f63 - 4b6fb0b6124f558131e502e3ffd03e6583b3ace6
Linux/Linux 32e4978bb920d047fe5de3ea42d176f267c01f63 - 74b5a88318db97d51bb40f774736553c2acd1514
Linux/Linux 32e4978bb920d047fe5de3ea42d176f267c01f63 - 8005843369723d9c8975b7c4202d1b85d6125302
... and 13 more
Published May 27, 2026
Tracked Since May 27, 2026