CVE-2026-46270

HIGH

power: supply: rt9455: 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: rt9455: 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 8.4
EPSS 0.0013
EPSS Percentile 2.9%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-416
Status published
Products (19)
Linux/Linux < 4.2
Linux/Linux 4.2
Linux/Linux 5.10.252 - 5.10.*
Linux/Linux 5.15.202 - 5.15.*
Linux/Linux 6.1.165 - 6.1.*
Linux/Linux 6.12.75 - 6.12.*
Linux/Linux 6.18.14 - 6.18.*
Linux/Linux 6.19.4 - 6.19.*
Linux/Linux 6.6.128 - 6.6.*
Linux/Linux 7.0
... and 9 more
Published Jun 03, 2026
Tracked Since Jun 03, 2026