{ "dataType": "CVE_RECORD", "dataVersion": "5.2", "cveMetadata": { "cveId": "CVE-2026-98645", "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "state": "PUBLISHED", "assignerShortName": "Linux", "dateReserved": "2026-09-25T10:25:14.362Z", "datePublished": "2026-10-18T15:20:16.676Z", "dateUpdated": "2026-10-19T09:23:14.926Z" }, "containers": { "cna": { "providerMetadata": { "orgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67", "shortName": "Linux", "dateUpdated": "2026-10-19T09:23:14.926Z" }, "descriptions": [ { "lang": "en", "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nHID: winwing: fix use-after-free in force feedback teardown\n\nwinwing_init_ff() passes the driver's private data, allocated with\ndevm_kzalloc() in winwing_probe(), as the effect context to\ninput_ff_create_memless(). The memoryless force-feedback core takes\nownership of that pointer and frees it with kfree() from\ninput_ff_destroy() (ml_ff_destroy()) when the input device is\ndestroyed.\n\nFreeing a devm-managed allocation with kfree() is an invalid free, and\nthe same object is then released again by devres when the HID device is\ntorn down, a double free. As the allocation also embeds the LED class\ndevices, their timers and work item live on freed memory and the slab\ngets corrupted. This triggers on unbind, rmmod, hot-unplug and on system\nsuspend, where the firmware cache walks the now-corrupt devres list.\nKASAN reports:\n\n BUG: KASAN: invalid-free in input_ff_destroy\n Allocated by task N:\n winwing_probe\n\nPass NULL as the memless context instead and fetch the driver data from\nthe input device in winwing_play_effect(): the HID core already stores\nthe hid_device as the input device's drvdata. The force-feedback core\nthen owns nothing that it must not free." } ], "affected": [ { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "drivers/hid/hid-winwing.c" ], "versions": [ { "version": "42d020b54edc57d03749bed75976f1e962a9fbfa", "lessThan": "2b25f11ec52ea0a82334d5b83ee321f6b0a35923", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" }, { "version": "42d020b54edc57d03749bed75976f1e962a9fbfa", "lessThan": "a1a5ad37e50ceb192c07ac7e2d7143638cd4d110", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git" } ] }, { "product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "affected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": [ "drivers/hid/hid-winwing.c" ], "versions": [ { "version": "7.1", "status": "affected" }, { "version": "0", "lessThan": "7.1", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "7.2.9", "lessThanOrEqual": "7.2.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver" }, { "version": "7.3", "lessThanOrEqual": "*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix" } ] } ], "cpeApplicability": [ { "nodes": [ { "operator": "OR", "negate": false, "cpeMatch": [ { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "7.1", "versionEndExcluding": "7.2.9" }, { "vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "7.1", "versionEndExcluding": "7.3" } ] } ] } ], "references": [ { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2b25f11ec52ea0a82334d5b83ee321f6b0a35923" }, { "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a1a5ad37e50ceb192c07ac7e2d7143638cd4d110" } ], "title": "HID: winwing: fix use-after-free in force feedback teardown", "x_generator": { "engine": "bippy-1.2.0" } } } }