CVE-2026-97996

CVE CVE-2026-97996EUVD EUVD-2026-86650Published 2026-09-25T10:23:26.000Z

What the advisory describes

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: virtio: fix use-after-free in unregister_virtio_device() device_unregister() is device_del() plus put_device(). When the caller holds no extra reference, that drops the last one and runs the release callback, which for several transports frees the memory the embedded struct virtio_device sits in. unregister_virtio_device() then calls virtio_debug_device_exit(), which reads dev->debugfs_dir out of the freed object. Affected transports are the ones whose release callback frees and whose remove path takes no reference: virtio_mmio, virtio_vdpa, virtio_uml, mlxbf-tmfifo and virtio_ccw. virtio_pci is unaffected because virtio_pci_remove() brackets the call with get_device() and put_device(). Remove the debugfs entries before the device can go away. They are only accessed through the protected debugfs interface, so debugfs_remove_recursive() waits for in-progress file operations before returning. Tearing them down while the device is still alive is therefore safe. Reproduced on User-Mode Linux with CONFIG_KASAN and CONFIG_VIRTIO_DEBUG by unbinding a virtio-uml device: BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in virtio_debug_device_exit+0x36/0x4d Read of size 8 at addr 00000000616e0b10 by task init/1 __asan_report_load8_noabort virtio_debug_device_exit+0x36/0x4d unregister_virtio_device+0x48/0x75 virtio_uml_remove platform_remove device_release_driver_internal unbind_store Freed by task 1: kfree virtio_uml_release_dev device_release kobject_put put_device device_unregister With this applied, the report is gone and unbind is clean.

Source: EUVD (ENISA), in the words of the advisory.

Products the advisory names

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• Linux — Linux 96a8326d69fffd7e8c2eb737dc060d8009a33b39 <3f9a0fceb730f5107d52421ead5568eae25a0049; 6.10; patch: 7.2.7; patch: 7.3-rc3; patch: 6.12.111; 96a8326d69fffd7e8c2eb737dc060d8009a33b39 <77dbd10a701a30fdfea5c3bb7a29163128f9a9c7; 96a8326d69fffd7e8c2eb737dc060d8009a33b39 <caf042153016d651b55d0fb4a63cdf7d0d23dee2; 96a8326d69fffd7e8c2eb737dc060d8009a33b39 <951cad50cba89e736afdee4a730e0e52f9245c9b; patch: 0; patch: 6.18.53

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• Linux — Linux

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